Quotes About Evaluation

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

You have to make people understand that things cost something. Otherwise it seems like they have no value. I can't just be giving away rabbits. No. It costs five bucks, so make it work for you.

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.

I'm a good judge of my own work.

So how's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

I want my work to be judged, not me.

Whenever you're confronted with a tough work situation, stop for a second and try to honestly answer this question: Am I approaching this emotionally or am I approaching this professionally?

I'm pretty hard on myself. Every now and again I'll go on my IMDB or update my resume and I'm like, "man, I've done a lot of work."

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

I'm not a huge fan of my work.

When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

Some movies work and some don't.

I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.