Quotes About Evaluation

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.

Count the cost first. Don't pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night?

If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.

You measure a player from the head up.

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

Don't judge a book by its movie.

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

I think todays music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.