Quotes About Evaluation

If you have an opponent who is clearly better than you, then OK, you have something to analyse.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

I'm always looking at things and seeing how I can improve upon them. I think it's my responsibility to focus on how I can do better, as opposed to what I've done well.

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work.

For me, it is always important that I go through all the possible options for a decision.

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

I want to keep my options open and make sure I'm doing the best thing for Hannah.

Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared.

Oscar De La Hoya looks good boxing, but you have to consider the opponent.

I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.

The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise.

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

When the intelligence is making a policymaker too happy, he ought to challenge it, and even if he doesn't, the intelligence briefer needs to launch a red team against his own conclusions to see if he can hold his ground.

We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

GDP simply measures the circulation of money in the economy, not whether or not the outcome of using that money is positive or negative.