Internal Evaluation Quotes

Our most important, and sometimes most severe, judges are our subordinates.

I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.

Never ask people about your work.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.

The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

Success is best measured by the achiever.

it is all the question of identity. ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside.

It's easy for us to look at another country or another political party and say, 'Enough! Do better!'. It is a tougher conversation when the problem is in our own tent.

I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.

The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.

I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.