Quotes About Evaluation

wrathful old guy with a long white beard who was big on testing

Would you like to compare what you do around here with what I do?

What is a date really, but a job interview that lasts all night?

MRI good... X-ray good... blood work good... If everything's so good, what the hell's she doing here?

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

It's hard to be objective about your own work.

So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it.

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

You need to be careful not to over-reach and also assess the capacity you have to work with.

We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.

You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

Sometimes I look at some of my old work and I don't like it.

I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.

I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.