Quotes About Assessment

Mentally make an effort to assess every step you're taking in all aspects of your life—including in your career, your relationships, and your health—in terms of directionality. That is, ask yourself, In which way am I truly moving? Am I getting away from my originating place, or am I returning to it?

Know thyself' is a highly overrated piece of wisdom. As for knowing the self of others, forget it. Know what they do and judge them by their works.

As for knowing the self of others, forget it. Know what they do and judge them by their works.

Of the five Cobb children, Shirley, who ran a bookstore for many years in Palo Alto, was the most similar to her father, which may explain her particularly harsh assessments of him.)

there's a big difference between being judgmental and making a judgment.

Serial blood pressure assessment is an essential component of each prenatal care visit.

We have three baskets: in, out, and too tough. … We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the "too tough" basket.

We evaluate ourselves based upon what we like to think… Others evaluate us based upon coming over/around or through…

In schools they have what they call intelligence tests. Well if nations held 'em I don't believe we would be what you would call a favorite to win it.

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Marks usually reward the most docile students, those who conform to their teachers' opinions. There's nothing competitive about learning, it's something everyone does for himself alone.

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

Find ways to develop self-awareness so you know what you do well... you do a thousand things brilliantly, and if you don't know what they are you aren't going to be able to become a true evaluator of your own work or other people's.

Thanks to the nation's testing mania (which I like to call 'No Child Left Untested' rather than 'No Child Left Behind'), children are being barraged with a nonstop volley of standardized tests. From kindergarten to graduate school, students are subjected to an unprecedented number of high-stakes tests

These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.

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Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.

When it came to showing models to Steve Jobs, we would select models that we ourselves thought were good,' said Satzger.

when meeting someone, our brains are in overdrive. Remember Shakespeare's Julius Caesar? He said of Cassius, he "has a lean and hungry look . . . he thinks too much . . . such men are dangerous.

Starting in 1964, average scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests went steadily down, and per student spending went steadily up.33