Quotes About Assessment

he was mentally calculating my worth in terms of the breakdown of the chemical components of my body!

body counts. It was how their performance was assessed, and it became one of the greatest self-reporting scams in history. Everyone knew it was going on. Some of the more senior commanders discouraged the practice, but it was so widespread—and so hard to disprove—that few if any field officers were ever disciplined for it.

have no way of knowing how cold (or warm) the globe actually got", how did the IPCC know it's hotter than it's been for a thousand years?

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

In any case fashions of one generation, moral or physical, are scarcely at all assessable in terms of another. They cannot be properly equated.

What has to happen for you to know that your values are being met or fulfilled?

She is the best of them all," he said to himself, as he refolded the letter and put it back into his desk. I am not sure that it is well that a man should have any large number from whom to select a best; as, in such circumstances, he is so very apt to change his judgment from hour to hour.

CHAPTER XIX 'WHO VALUED THE GEESE?

If it is a book, do not leave it without being able to sum it up and to estimate its value.

And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

Like the saying goes: the dead look the way they eat! And you ought to see that woman's husband

Any work, whatever its genre or perspective, can only be fairly judged by the goals it sets for itself.

Keep nothing that doesn't leave you with a feeling of light, positive energy. Be ruthless in your assessment of whether you should keep something—and when you do eliminate it, be quick about it. Don't second-guess yourself.

It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.

How do you measure misery?

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.

What people say about others' behavior or character is not always true, Just Proffer it to your best judgement.

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The handles we can add revolve around content, timing, and environment.

Executive function is a better predictor of academic success than IQ.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.