Quotes About Evaluation

It's like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a magazine. (on Tom Wolfe)

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods

The criteria that determine artistic success are ultimately determined by artists, not critics, and great art itself changes what these criteria are.

But it is a common mistake to emphasise what you can measure at the expense of more important things that you can't. It is generally better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

Transaction costs can arise before any business is done. Locating potential trading partners may be costly and time-consuming. Comparing alternative sellers and choosing among them takes effort by the buyer. The quality of the goods for sale is often not immediately apparent, and the buyer may have to go to some trouble to evaluate it. If it cannot be reliably checked, the buyer might be reluctant to purchase.

He flings pros into the air like skeet, and one by one he shatters them with cons.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.

One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.