Quotes About Evaluation

Every player usually watches their clips back of how they play: mistakes, duels, things that are specific for your game. I wanted to be proud of that and I wanted to see it in person, I suppose, because in the past I have had a lot of criticism for things that I have done.

I hate watching myself on screen. I can't stand it.

A good reader or viewer is a person who is alert about her newspaper or news channel. A good reader or viewer will never waste her hard-earned money in watching or reading just anything. She is serious. She will have to think if the news she is consuming is journalism or sycophancy.

Anything that's memorable about a movie is often what a test audience will object to because they're being asked to be experts. They just compare the film they finished watching to all of the other films that they've seen.

Watching tape is key. I basically watch every game. It's the only way to break down your opponents.

Sometimes I'll be watching a movie then think to myself that I could do a better job.

I've always been a scientist in terms of watching basketball. I like to dissect it all.

Watching the Dodgers perform at a really high level is a nice reminder to us as to how high the bar is.

In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

I think that we rightly spend more time thinking about and criticising the stuff that is really successful, because we want to make sure that we understand all the ways that it is both a positive and negative influence. It isn't always a bad thing.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.

People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences.

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Recognize that killing a weak idea early is valuable.

I knew people would see 'PKP.' Although the packaging was weak, the product was good.

When you go into the really big games you look at your team and think 'where are we weak, where are we vulnerable.'

Production-wise, 'Looks Like a Job For... ' is an incredible album. I think that the weak point of the album was really me.

I don't mind if my performances get dissected and people criticise what I've done on the pitch. They can talk about my game 24/7 for all I care. And a lot of those opinions and criticisms may actually be right. So I don't mind that.

If you are the coach of a national team, you have to evaluate players based on what they do on the pitch.

When you play a lot of games in a row, and you come off the pitch thinking, 'I can't do this no more,' then it is time to look at something else, whether you have six months left on your contract or four years.

I don't look at myself as one of the best pitchers in the world.