Quotes About Assessment

Quantity is a poor measure of the artistic merits of a collection,

only way to be sure how the redemption fee is assessed in a fund that you're considering investing in is to read the prospectus carefully.

But the yardstick is not only contrived, it's too short: my consistently perfect scores don't tell them anything, because they have no basis for comparison this far out on the bell curve.

With my near-total recall and my ability to correlate, I can assess a situation immediately, and choose the best course of action for my purposes; I'm never indecisive. Only theoretical topics pose a challenge.

I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.

You never know about team speed until you get out there. You don't know who is a slow learner. A kid may not be very bright or he may be real bright but he doesn't know football. You've got to find out all those nuances and how they learn.

I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.

I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.

When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

But in the time-honored manner of most human males, he allowed his eyeballs to swivel her way so that he could check her out, then turned his head so that he could check her out better.

overestimating the intelligence of the enemy is, if anything, more dangerous than underestimating it.

The three-ringer gives her a quick look, just long enough to make sure she is really a person, not a sack of flour or an engine block or a tree stump.

Reaction is just that—an action you have taken before. When you "re-act," what you do is assess the incoming data, search your memory bank for the same or nearly the same experience, and act the way you did before. This is all the work of the mind, not of your soul.

On the subject of climate change, the data clearly show that Earth is warming up, and that humans are contributing to the warming. That's the fairest assessment of the evidence.

I was about to rule this a dumbicide

Before you go on any mission, you need to understand what you know, identify what you don't know, and try to guess what could go wrong.

He said that it always struck him with surprise that while men in buying an earthen or glass vase would sound it first to learn if it were good, yet in choosing a wife they were content with only looking at her.

It is in the nature of things that every time you try to avoid one danger you run into another. Good sense consists in being able to assess the dangers and choose the lesser of various evils.

I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.