Quotes About Evaluation

The less comprehensible he was, the more responsible he was held to be. Here was no lightweight.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?

Dans le « programme des examens » les choses ne se passent pas comme dans la vie.

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

In both instances, advocates of one culture view the other with different standards, disapproving of what they find, and expressing their disapproval by alleging harmful effects on the audience. Why they do this, why their standards differ, which standards are the right ones, and how this affects the evaluation of high and popular culture will be discussed in Chapters Two and Three.

Critici zijn beroepshalve verkeerd-lezers. Het begint er al mee dat lezen natuurlijk nooit een beroep mag worden; je bent ook geen beroepseter of beroepswandelaar. Het is onethisch. Lezen doe je voor je plezier.

Ve waldorfské škole není obvyklé opakovat t?ídu, a proto se tady posouzení školní zralosti p?ikládá ten nejv?tší význam.

Oh, you are not disappointing," Henry says. "But the moment you are, I will let you know.

He has always rated Anne highly as a strategist. He has never believed in her as a passionate, spontaneous woman. Everything she does is calculated, like everything he does.

how to retell exactly what had been said and done, without putting your own interpretation on it, and submit it to another judgement? It wasn't possible.

I wonder what the kid I was then would think of the people we are now.

one can no more hinder criticism than the use of eyes, tongues, and judgment.

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

word and its implications from every angle.

If anyone uses the words 'marvelous imagery' or 'narrative arc,' slap them for me.

We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

Whenever you are dealing with someone or something of unknown value the first one who places a value on it establishes its worth.

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

It came to him that he didn't like holidays. . . . They bore down on you. Each one always ended up feeling like an exam . . .

Forced to weigh your words, you find out which are the styrofoam and which are the heavy gold. Severe cutting intensifies your style, forcing you both to crowd and to leap.

When questions requiring reasoned judgment are reduced to matters of subjective preference, counterfeit critical thinking occurs. Some people, then, come to uncritically assume that everyone's "opinion" is of equal value.

It seems to me that life is about figuring out which things should be discarded and which things should be kept and put in their rightful place.