Quotes About Assessment

Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

We have to keep a very tight check on quality.

Q: Dr. Ride, apart from the obvious differences, how do you assess the differences in men and women astronauts? A: Aside from the obvious differences, I don't think there are any. - Prime crew press conference, April 29, 1982

The reader is the final arbiter.

Mechanical testing tempts us with the false promise of efficiency. It whispers that there is an easier, less costly, more scientific way. But the truth is that blackening circles only prepares students to blacken more circles in the future. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we will be redeemed from our craziness.

The most important factor in admissions decisions was in fact the interview.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.

we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough in either painting, music, or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough

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

I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.

Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

I honestly haven't thought about it much. When it comes time for me to retire, I don't think I'll know going into that season. I'll have to evaluate it at the end of each year.

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.