Quotes About Reassessment

I'm pretty over swimming, guys.

We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.

For a long time, I was very unhappy, very unhappy indeed. ... occasions now and then -- extremely desolate occasions -- when you think to yourself: What a terrible mistake I've made with my life. And you get to thinking about a different life, a better life you might have had.

I feel like I'm heading full speed in the wrong direction.

the whole point of Bagatelle is that you trifle with the stories that people think are set in stone.

You just have to approach every day and say, 'If you were starting fresh today, what would my portfolio look like?' So that's how we think about it.

Constant reevaluation is the bedrock of any emergency response.

I look back on shows now that I thought were good, and I don't like them so much anymore. Or criticism I didn't understand or agree with now makes sense.

I had a lot of success for many years, and the critics had been so kind. Sometimes it's good to get cut down to size a little bit.

I should sit down and make a list of everything I missed while I was gone. If you can't smoke in bars anymore, what other atrocities has the world committed?

But you said he was OK. He murdered someone and you said he was OK." Never scowled. "First of all, and I think this is important, that's not the order in which those things occurred. I said he was OK, and then he murdered someone. But, due to recent events, I've obviously changed my mind about him.

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false, dangerous.

When a party loses a national election to someone such as President Trump, it's time to rethink everything.

Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success.

Sometimes you're running toward your target so hard that you don't stop to reassess.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.

It is a gift few people will ever be presented with, so take it. Take a year to do nothing.