achievement assessment Quotes

The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?'

The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.

I don't think I'll ever tell you I had a great performance in a loss. That doesn't make sense to me, to be honest.

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

I don't think ultimately presidents are judged by crowd sizes at their inauguration. I think they're judged by their accomplishments.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

There's no comparison to competition. You can't tell yourself truly where you're at unless you compete in competition.

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done

I don't know if there's ever a point where you go, 'Oh, I'm successful now. Look at all this great stuff I've done,' because I don't think it can be tangible in that way.

I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.

Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives

I don't care about my personal acting career anymore. I'm done with it. After 10 years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself: 'What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had?'

Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?