Quotes About Evaluation

Science fiction is not about predicting the future but examining the present.

The most important of these intellectual capabilities, and the one most under attack in American universities, is critical thinking: the ability to examine new information and competing ideas dispassionately, logically, and without emotional or personal preconceptions.

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be.

Wat wij te goedkoop verwerven, schatten we te laag in. Het is duurte die alles zijn waarde geeft.

Our own attitudes always seem OK because we use an attitude to judge itself. No matter how much misery our attitudes cause, we will always defend them.

But when a religious doctrine appears consistently (and over a long period of time) to have destructive effects in the lives of those who accept it, then we have a prima facie reason, surely, to question its soundness.

Self-examination [means] setting up a court in [your] conscience and keeping a register there that by strict scrutiny a man may know how things stand between God and his own soul.

Train with decisiveness the task of measuring whether you can do this.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

As Queen Elizabeth II said after her annus horribilis: "There can be no doubt that criticism is good for people and institutions . . . but scrutiny can be just as effective if it is made with a touch of gentleness, good humor, and understanding.

I go over my own escape routes all the time.

There's no question in my mind that I think I would have been a better president than Barack Obama has been.

There's no question we made a couple mistakes there at UCLA at the very end.

Pressure is always on if you don't perform. There is no question.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Sometimes you look at the critics and say, 'Nobody else was telling me that, but you were.'

Honestly, when I am offered a film, I look at the story, character, director, producer and co-actors while giving a nod.

I generally don't read articles about myself/'Chappelle's Show,' nor do I read reviews. It's basically playing Russian Roulette. They're not all gonna be positive.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

I'm not going to offer and take a guy at North Carolina that I don't meet. And if I don't like him, I'm not taking him.