Quotes About Evaluation

In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Under the British healthcare system, there is a commission that decides whether or not, based on your age and physical condition, the government should continue to pay for your health.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would've changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.

I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.