Quotes About Assessment

The entire purpose of the State of the Union Address is for the president to outline where we stand as a nation.

I think, as time passes, people will come to see that the United States' credit standing is really not quite the same level as the ones that we rate AAA.

Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.

I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'

A lot of people don't really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn't really give the full picture of the body of work. There's been time when I've had one sack or no sacks and controlled a whole game, and I've seen other cats get three or four sacks and it had no effect on that game.

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

This can sound rather grim, but it does have a positive flip-side: It suggests that our negative assessments of other people are less likely than our positive assessments to be correct, and we should give our foes another chance.

It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.

The place to start assessing a culture is to listen, really listen, to how employees describe a place. We believe that within most generalizations there lies an inner core of truth.

I was a straight-A student at a university" does not mean what it did in 1960 or even 1980. A study of two hundred colleges and universities up through 2009 found that A was the most commonly given grade, an increase of nearly 30 percent since 1960 and over 10 percent just since 1988. Grades in the A and B range together now account for more than 80 percent of all grades in all subjects, a trend that continues unabated.17

What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Train with decisiveness the task of measuring whether you can do this.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

Sometimes you look at the critics and say, 'Nobody else was telling me that, but you were.'

I prefer not to compare teams because it's not fair at all.

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.

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.

In training and at the club, players know that the player is good. You notice when the guy arrives, who's the ace, who's the player who maybe can't take the level.