Quotes About Assessment

When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best.

Nije vrijeme došlo da ginemo, nego da se vidi ko je kakav.

Comes off like she's got the mental capacity of broccoli

Slackers were not well dressed, because there was no reason to dress smartly. Their uniform was old jeans, Converse trainers and warm, practical lumberjack shirts. They were not career-minded, for there was no reason to pursue the corporate dream. They were seen largely as apathetic, but it was an apathy born of a logical assessment of the options rather than innate laziness.

The goatee was a neutral—unless you assessed it on style. In which case the fucker was a travesty of Rogaine proportions.

Going over to their prisoner, Vishous performed a visual assessment on Xcor. When they'd brought the bastard in here, V had strapped him onto the wooden slab table face-up and spread-eagled, locking stainless-steel cuffs on those wrists and ankles and around that thick neck—and what do you know, the guy was right where he'd left him. Color was passable. Eyes were closed. Head wound at the rear of the skull was no longer leaking, having healed already.

Sacrifice was also in the eye of the beholder. Like beauty, it was a personal, subjective assessment, a cost-benefit analysis that had no right answer, only a compass that spun around an individual's variant of true north. Throe

I couldn't meet a girl without saying to myself, What kind of wife would she make?

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

I consider myself a reasonably intelligent guy. Made straight A's in high school (except for driver's ed and typing).

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

who wishes to fight must first count the cost

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

it calls for deciding things on their own merit, not because you read it or were told it or grew up believing it.

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

Routines without ongoing assessment lead to stagnation and mediocrity.

Posterity gives every man his true value.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.