Quotes About Evaluation

there some great wisdom to be gained by calibrating exactly how worthless a mind I have?

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.

There are few men under heaven who can love and see the defects, or hate and see the excellence of an object.

You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than what they're worth.

and he also told me that I should rethink submitting my thesis. He read your thesis. He read three different drafts of it, actually. Did he understand it? Pretty much. He understood what was wrong with it. And that was? That nobody could understand it.

No hay criterio definitivo que pueda demostrar la bondad o maldad de un juicio ético. Que

The kid looked at Tobin. What's he a judge of?

War is the great auditor of institutions

Here's what I've learned about the people in this city," Darcy was saying. "They grade their women on a curve. If someone is described as sophisticated, it means once during college she visited Paris, and if someone is described as beautiful, it means she's fifteen pounds overweight instead of forty. And

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

mistakes did I make that time?' "'What did I do that was right—and in what way could I have improved my performance?' "'What lessons can I learn from that experience?

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Tanto como anhelamos la aprobación, tememos la condena

criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

Let's keep a record of the fool things we have done and criticize ourselves. Since we can't hope to be perfect, let's do what E.H. Little did: let's ask for unbiased, helpful, constructive criticism.

Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less       important than I thought

How immensely the world is simplified when tested for its worthiness of destruction. This is the great bond embracing and unifying all that exists.

Instead of giving his own opinion, a great critic enables others to form their opinion on the basis of his critical analysis.

Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible.

It's not something I want to judge Steve by.