Quotes About Assessment

I think every time I'm with the team, even in a World Cup, as a coach, you're constantly evaluating.

World history is a court of judgment.

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

As a player, you have to assess how fit you are and look at your performance graph - how long you are delivering. Take Imran Khan's case: he played till 39.

It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons.

In this age of the Internet, if you are going to go see someone, you usually look them up first. It can be an advantage and disadvantage. Most of the time, people can Google you and see a couple clips and say, 'Oh I am going to go.' They can kind of co-sign off on you.

Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'

To be honest, I don't have much to do in 'Hathyar.' I won't call it a pivotal role.

We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives.

In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?

One of the organizing principles of gentrified thinking is to assess everyone based on what they can do for you, and then treat them accordingly.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

Perhaps the most simple, and effective, way to initially judge a piece of writing is to ask yourself: is this something I wish I had done myself, or am I glad I didn't?

Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32 and 42 percent of the time.

Which would be better, what sticks or what falls through? Or does the choice itself create the value?

Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.