Quotes About Evaluation

My mother came to see me in a play when I was a student, and afterwards, I asked her what she thought. She said, 'Honest opinion? No.'

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.

Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.

You need to carry out very careful pre-feasibility and feasibility studies before you enter any crisis situation.

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.

I'm always looking at film, studying myself, comparing and contrasting with film of the great linebackers to see what I need to work on.

You've got to be harsh on yourself because it is the only way you are going to get better by studying those situations where you may have fallen short.

You always compare yourself, on the pitch or in general life, and you can always learn. Youve obviously got to do a bit of studying yourself as well.

I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.

This book-promotion stuff is like a political campaign. You work your butt off, and at the end of the day, you can't tell if it's made a damned bit of difference.

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

I never try to predict what will happen to any project, ever. There are so many factors. Does the public like the subject matter, the way you handle it?

If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.