Quotes About Assessment

You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.

I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.

Jessie Vargas is not as good as those guys I lost to.

If she had been in a pointing competition, she would have lost points.

Would I buy this today, at this price?" If not, you may not want to own it any longer.

By God, quod he, for pleynly, at a word, Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!

Human courtship, like courtship in other animals, has a typical time-course. Courtship effort is low when first assessing a sexual prospect, increases rapidly if the prospect reciprocates one's interest, peaks when the prospect is deciding whether to copulate, and declines once a long-term relationship is established.

In the game of science though, sounding sexist is not a good reason to ban a theory. Science is the one zone of human thought where ideological preferences are not supposed to influence the assessment of ideas and evidence. Human evolution happened somehow. It may not have happened in a way that coincides with our ideological preferences.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation

My interest in "issues" is merely to point out how badly we're doing, not to suggest a way we might do better. Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in low they "ought to be.

animadversion from that small pipe—that capillary vessel, the Rev.

75 percent of charter schools have results that are worse than, or no different from, traditional public schools.

Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools.

Whether I'm riding a horse or driving a car, I'm feeling them, judging what they're doing, trying to work out what I can take them up to.

Threat is in the eye of the beholder.

If you misdiagnose, if you misdiagnose anything, whether it's a serious disease or a international geopolitical threat, you will never solve it.

Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.

When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does.

In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.

When I throw a dart, even when I'm looking I know if I've missed or hit as soon as I release the dart.

You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R's, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools.

Some throws we're just trying to make in practice to see if it's something we want to move with on during the season.