Overall Assessment Quotes

At the end of the day, I don't think I am going to be judged by what happened in the 90's and 2000's, at the end of the day my career will be judged from beginning to end and everything in between.

If we must have the Production Code, then I think the only way to use it effectively is to judge a film as a whole and determine whether its effect is good or bad.

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.

If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

I don't talk about what happened after one game or the other. We look at a season as a whole picture.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

You must wait until the end, and at the end of the season you can say it was a good or a bad season.

I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.