Quotes about Evaluation

The kid looked at Tobin. What's he a judge of?

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

If you are satisfied with the results you are now getting, why change? If you are not satisfied, why not experiment?

It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is.

I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.

In this chapter we invite you to listen to your words and evaluate the way they shape your relationships.

What tendency do you observe in your life?

To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form. Who wants to wade through a dull volume? One tastes it, and that is quite enough — more than enough, I should imagine.

people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12

All evaluations eventually boil down to this: Am I moving toward God or away from Him? Am I turning toward God with awe and gratitude, or away from Him toward false gods of my own making?

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe. (on Mark Twain)