I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.
Independence is a very subjective assessment.
I've played games where I thought I played one of my better games, and statistically, there's nothing there, and vice versa. I've never based how I feel about my performance on stats.
You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.
I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.
A good deal is a state of mind.
Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.
Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
I can't control what the judges give me.
What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of this.
The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.
You are going to be measured anyway by some means, fair or foul. Usually the one doing the measuring has nothing specific in mind; so he does it by the seat of his pants. Careers are destroyed in this manner.
I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.
It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
I didn't do too well until my second year, when I realized that there were no right or wrong answers and that my professors were interested only in how well I could develop an argument.
Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get
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.
All general judgments are loose and imperfect
Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally in a temporary capacity. Since the critic exists only for introducing and explaining, he must be readily intelligible; he has no special vocabulary: criticism is in no way a science or a system.
It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back
I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.
