Objective Assessment Quotes

...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus instead on the positive aspects of her philosophy. There is much in it to admire, if you do not have to accept the whole package... Criticism of the founder or followers of a philosophy does not, by itself, constitute a negation of any part of the philosophy... Criticism of part of a philosophy does not gainsay the whole.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

Nobody must judge me based on my decisions, and only my knowledge and education must be the criteria to judge me.

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own.

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

I don't like to talk about my work. People should see my work and form their opinion based on that, not because of something I said.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I've got a pretty cold honest eye.

Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.

I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.

Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

If people are reacting to films based on their degree of success or failure, then they're not really looking at the movie. I don't really care about that. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but at least base your opinion on the merit of the work itself.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.

I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I'm gonna say that I like every other woman's work, or that I appreciate another statement that another woman publicly made.

We are not a court - not a judge or jury at work - but we've tried to apply the highest possible standards of rigorous analysis to the evidence where we make a criticism.

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view. The hard part is that the investor must measure himself not by his own perceptions of his performance, but by the objective measure of the market. The market has its own reality. In an immediate emotional sense the market is always right so if you take a variant point of view you will always be bombarded for some time by conventional wisdom as expressed by the market.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself judging it as I'm doing it, as opposed to letting it free flow.

I am a programmer. If I write code, I don't evaluate the results by what I hope the code will be. I evaluate it by what happens when I compile it. I evaluate it by results.