Quotes About Assessment

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

And the sentence that condemns or acquits is not simply a judgement of guilt, a legal decision that lays down punishment; it bears within it an assessment of normality and a technical prescription for a possible normalization. Today the judge- magistrate or juror certainly does more than 'judge'.

Disciplines do have status, and we judge others as representatives of their disciplines.

Either this guy's a total idiot, or he's the biggest genius to hit physics in years!

We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.

If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

A beheadable-yet-fair assessment.

In 80 percent or more of cases, people have three goals in common: first, a financial and career goal; second, a family or personal relationship goal; and third, a health or a fitness goal. And this is as it should be. These are the three most important areas of life. If you give yourself a grade on a scale of one to ten in each of these three areas, you can immediately identify where you are doing well in life and where you need some improvement.

Whenever you are faced with a risky situation, ask yourself this question, What is the worst possible thing that could happen if I go ahead?

The second key to goal setting is that goals must be measurable and objective. They must be capable of being analyzed and evaluated by a third party.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

A religion can be judged only on the basis of another religion.

Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God's holiness and our sinfulness.

I can spot an underemployed lazy intellectual anywhere.

We are alive and we resonate with idea of life elsewhere, but only careful accumulation and assessment of the evidence can tell us whether a given world is inhabited.

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.

Everything is a test.

If I'd had to buy you, you wouldn't be worth the price.

I could use you—if you pass the tests, of course. There are three of them. You have passed the first. What are the other— Hrun paused, his lips moved soundlessly and then he hazarded, two?

a school's worth should be measured not by how its students perform on standardized tests but by how well they function as adult graduates of the school...

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.