Quotes About Assessment

I wouldn't dream of giving any human being marks out of 10 on two hours' acquaintance.

Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

A whole lot of good my IQ came when it came to judging his character.

Never make the same mistake twice. You are your best critic!

You knew her for years and I knew her for minutes. It comes to the same thing. These matters have to be assessed in the light of eternity.

Science now knows that evolutionarily more advanced animals are more emotional than primitive ones, the human being the most emotional of all. Moreover, emotions play a critical role in daily lives, helping assess situations as good or bad, safe or dangerous.

At the curiosity stage we are really only making two large piles: keep and discard.

Curiosity Is a Snap Judgment

Assess the Strength of Your Marketing Campaign

To do this, you want to start by listing the top five reasons why someone would not want to do business with you.

Look to your foundation, if you would know whether or not you are a member of the one true Church.

Don't kid yourself.Be honest with yourself.Take your own inventory".

The special operations culture is unique in its willingness to ignore rank when it comes to providing brutally honest assessments of an action.

Good. What do you need to pull it off?" "Take a breath, look around, make a call," Reece muttered.

The Teams had a saying: "Don't rush to your death." There was hardly ever a good reason to go barging into a target at full speed without carefully assessing the situation.

So, one of your shortcomings has been in letting your rational assessment of a situation keep you from participating in a psychologically driven trade. Yes, failing to participate in markets when the fundamentals are less important than the psychology. But how do you recognize that type of situation? Well, that's the key question, isn't it? [He laughs.]

You can use charts to give you a plus or minus toward your view, but you can never start with the chart.

I would say that risk management is the most important thing to be well understood.

I am persuaded that your people are foolish beyond any reasonable expectation. Not all of them. Obviously, there are many who are reasonable. Otherwise, you could never have reached this world. But the intelligence seems to be confined to a relatively few individuals. When your people come together as a group, they do not perform well.

Effective people know when to stop assessing and make a tough call, even without total information. Little is worse than a manager who can't cut bait.

People take you at your own evaluation, or at least the value that you appear to show.

Judge wisely or be judged accordingly

Advertising is a craft executed by people who aspire to be artists, but is assessed by those who aspire to be scientists. I cannot imagine any human relationship more perfectly designed to produce total mayhem."13