Quotes About Evaluation

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.

I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm doing by how many people remember; it's like the old fantasy of attending your own funeral: You get to see who your friends are, get to see who shows up.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

It's very illuminating to have to make a list, which you will very possibly have occasion to use, of the things you'd save in an extremity. It reduces one's material possessions to their proper place.

Things sometimes fell apart unexpectedly. It was not necessarily a reflection of how much they were valued.

I've realised that anyone can be a critic but it takes a remarkable person to offer praise.

I've realized that anyone can be a critic but it takes a remarkable person to offer praise.

You're an artist," said Reine-Marie. "Do you think a work should be judged by its creator? Or should it stand on its own?

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

I cannot so abstract myself from myself as to judge myself … ; another has an impartial judgement; through him I correct, complete, extend my own judgement, my own taste, my own knowledge.

Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.

O valor não é intrínseco. Não está nas coisas e nas condições, mas no sujeito que as avalia.

I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive—the sum of the parts equals more than the whole.

Strategia fundamental? era urm?toarea: în primul rând, nu d?deai nimic pe gratis. Un lucru pe care l-am înv??at de la Statul Universal al Bun?st?rii este c? oamenii subevalueaz? lucrurile pentru care nu pl?tesc.

Another lesson to emerge is that in a complex technological disaster, hardware by itself won't solve the problem. You need to think things through, to diagnose and analyze and interpret.

The accurate measurement of our true spiritual condition lies in our actual obedience to His will.

The latter quality, being one's own locus of evaluation, means that one has a sense of satisfaction with himself.

We have no alternative. We must break the sacred rule and question these rules because unless we talk about them, there is no way out. We must evaluate them in the light of our newfound knowledge of families as systems.

There are two kinds of fool. One says, 'This is old, and therefore good.' And one says, 'This is new, and therefore better.