Quotes About Evaluation

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

I firmly believe that we must evaluate, explore and encourage new ideas with an open mind.

When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

If you ask my opinion, I don't look at a film according to its box office collection.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

I believe that everyone has a right to have an opinion about things or people, and fortunately, I have been lucky to have heard usually good things about myself. However, I must admit that people can be quite critical about your role also.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

My first impressions of people are invariably right.

Man know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde

I don't see anybody here to-night whom one could possibly call a serious purpose.

No existen libros morales o inmorales. Los libros están bien o mal escritos. Eso es todo.

They're being really judgmental.

He had that extra four or five inches of neck which disqualifies a man for high honors in the beauty competition

Follow your heart? Forgive me, but that's the myth of all myths. You should research the man you're with as thoroughly as you'd research which car to buy. What do other people say about him? What's his track record? Be aware of what your situation with

every woman needs to stop sometimes at the great railway station of life—on the evening of her big birthday, or the end of a big love affair, or even an ordinary afternoon—and take stock of where she is, how she got there, where she's going, and why. That's what you're doing right this very minute. You've already started. And you're already there.

By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the one hand, we have to make the most of our lives; on the other, we have to be sorry and punish ourselves if we don't succeed in doing so. This is a perversion of a very beautiful idea: that everyone has a right to control his own destiny and to improve his life.

my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right.

You really try to evaluate the risks and provide for them. Whether it's going to be a pleasant or unpleasant surprise, you try to evaluate the risk.

Look at it, like a rat,' she said. 'A portrait of Harge.