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Quotes About Review

Being reviewed or assessed by others matters if and only if one is subjected to the judgment of future—not just present—others. And recall that, a free person does not need to win arguments—just win.*2
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A book review, good or bad, can be far more descriptive of the reviewer than informational about the book itself.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames.
~ Peter Jackson
So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.
~ Thierry Henry
To me, if you see a play that's just a bad play, it's just a missed call, I think, as a coach, you should be able to challenge that.
~ Bill Belichick
On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.
~ Jeremy Stoppelman
The issue of how the game is played is something that's constantly being reviewed internally with the Players' Association, with the general managers, and it's something that we continue to monitor on a daily basis.
~ Gary Bettman
How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
~ Kathryn Harrison
The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.
~ Tom Clancy
afteraction review, or AAR.
~ Tom Clancy
Does it go on the "keeper" pile or does it go on the "discard" pile? That's the first question your prospects are probably going to ask, because it's likely that the reviewers are staring at a pile of submissions much larger than they can reasonably handle.
~ Tom Sant
Good editors are really the third eye. Cool. Dispassionate. They don't love you or your work.
~ Toni Morrison
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
~ Kingsley Amis
We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.
~ Kingsley Amis
For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably.
~ Kingsley Amis
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A Dallas Morning News Top 10 of 2016
~ Carol Anderson
The Empire Strikes Back (grade: A+) A New Hope (grade: A+) Return of the Jedi (grade: A) Rogue One (grade: A) Revenge of the Sith (grade: A-) The Force Awakens (grade: A-) The Last Jedi (grade: B+) Attack of the Clones (grade: B+) The Phantom Menace (grade: B) Solo (grade: C)
~ Cass R. Sunstein
CATELYN Ned and the girls were eight days gone when Maester Luwin came to her one night in Bran's sickroom, carrying a reading lamp and the books of account. "It is past time that we reviewed the
~ George R.R. Martin
Time is the only critic without ambition.
~ John Steinbeck
Many of these books were quite good, most were middle-of-the-road, and a few brought to mind a review by Dorothy Parker, in which she stated, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
I read a lot for me. But I'm not one of those people who gets 'The New York Times' book review and runs out and buys 10 books and is done with them and passing them out to friends, you know, two weeks later.
~ Justin Theroux
Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.
~ Lionel Shriver
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
~ Sydney Smith