Quotes About Evaluation

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

I prefer not to compare teams because it's not fair at all.

In the SAS, if you're not good enough, you're graded out of it.

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

If someone comes and tells me I've done great work, that's not what I want to hear. But if someone comes and tells me that this could have been a notch better, I'd spend an hour with the person and hear him or her out.

You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

Audiences are brutally honest nowadays. If they don't like an actor, they have all the right to write him off.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.

Mitt Romney saying that Barack Obama gets an F is one of the most ridiculous things that he has said in this race.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

I'm really bad at knowing if something I've done is any good. I can't work it out; I can't be objective about anything I do.

Analysts have forgotten how to analyze business and they have forgotten how to be objective about them.

I personally don't prefer acting and directing in something because I don't have the same objectivity.

In my experience and observation, senior appointments are rarely based entirely on merit.

I look like I'm not listening, but I'm actually listening. I like listening to everything, observing everybody, just taking everything in, and then, in my mind, figuring out what's good for me and what's bad for me.