Quotes About Assessment

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

It's easy to measure what you can count, but what counts is not easy to measure.

I don't believe in love at first sight but I do believe in judging at first sight.

Due to previous lack of systematic assessment of dissociative symptoms, many subjects experience the SCID-D as their first opportunity to describe their symptoms in their own words to a receptive listener.

Many, if not most, therapeutic errors are assessment errors; that is, they are therapeutic responses based on faulty understanding and assessment of the problem at hand.

it establishes the speaker as someone who sits in judgment.

Regret is the emotion we experience when we assess our present circumstances and reconsider how we got here. We replay what we actually did against what we should have done—and find ourselves wanting in some way. Regret can hurt.

What in my life is worth keeping?" The

As a rule, successful human beings tend to overweight our own strengths—and underweight our own weaknesses when evaluating others.

I'm going to mark your cognition level at fifty-five percent." "Fuck you." "Let's make that sixty percent.")

The full station threat assessment for murder was sitting at a baseline 7 percent. (To make it drop lower than that we'd have to be on an uninhabited planet.) (I've never been on a contract on an uninhabited planet because if I was on the planet on a contract then we'd be inhabiting it.)

Miki, damage report." "I am at eighty-six percent functional capacity." It held up its arm stump. "It's only a flesh wound.

while I have been a key factor in certain clusterfucks of gigantic proportions and my risk assessment module has serious issues, my threat assessment record is pretty great

The expected value of something is not a good guide to its price.

Most programmers, even experienced ones, are poor judges of how code actually performs.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Other studies have shown that when people make a subconscious judgment about a person, environment, or product within ninety seconds, between 62 and 90 percent of that assessment is based on color alone.

With 70 percent accuracy, my source tells me, software can assess how people feel based on the way they type, and the number of typos they make. With 79 percent precision, software can determine a user's credit rating based on the degree to which they write in ALL CAPS.

Although we cannot all be writers, we all want to be critics.

She'd heard they were gentle, even the bulls. And she was savvy about cattle. She knew how to judge their tempers and stay clear of them when necessary.

I sometimes find it difficult to distinguish praise from blame.

In the United States, toddlers and preschoolers who might have a physical, sensory, cognitive, or emotional disability are guaranteed the right to a professional assessment and educational services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

You measure system capability; you do not prescribe it.

But that would be exactly the wrong way to look at him, because it would be an attempt to make him a godlike figure capable of doing what no human being can do: completely transcend his own upbringing. Instead, we should assess him by the standards of his own culture and time. By those standards, he was a role model indeed.