Quotes About Evaluation

I had to recognize when a race meeting was offering me little promise so that I could bail out early.

Research knowledge of a complex phenomenon advances by comparing the relative contributions of different models.

Don't be like the frog. Keep an eye on the big picture. Constantly review what's happening around you, not just what you personally are doing.

Tracer bullets show what you're hitting. This may not always be the target. You then adjust your aim until they're on target. That's the point. It's the same with tracer code.

In addition to doing your own personal best, you must analyze the situation for risks that are beyond your control.

You sketch out an overall shape, paint the underlying environment, then fill in the details. You constantly step back with a critical eye to view what you've done. Every now and then you'll throw a canvas away and start again.

think critically about what you read and hear. You need to ensure that the knowledge in your portfolio is accurate and unswayed by either vendor or media hype.

Never run on auto-pilot. Constantly be thinking, critiquing your work in real time.

When an estimate turns out wrong, don't just shrug and walk away. Find out why it differed from your guess. Maybe you chose some parameters that didn't match the reality of the problem. Maybe your model was wrong. Whatever the reason, take some time to uncover what happened. If you do, your next estimate will be better.

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

We are in such a habit of evaluating God and His work in us by what we feel that it is very likely that on some occasions we will be discouraged because we do not feel any special blessing. Above everything, when you wait on God, you must do so in the spirit of hope.

The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort.

If progress is not the right word for buildings or poems, what is the right way to evaluate cultural change? I suggest integrity.

I will find your books and review with nastiness.

So you should always have a product that's not just "you." An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you're worth, and you don't get stuck thinking your product is you and your fame, and your aura. 6 Work

short written or spoken examination of a person's proficiency or knowledge:

She'd learned that it was important when you were dealing with professional do-gooders to keep calm. Otherwise they judged you. Wrote things like anger-management problems in their reports.

four E's on my report card this term and he didn't even care.

As my doubts about whether to move to the Balkans lingered, I devised a test for myself that I have used many times since. The test, as I put it then, was as follows: If I end up not making it as a journalist, will something else I learn in the process make it worth trying? I would come to call this the in trying for Y, the most I accomplish is X test, or the X test.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse them, and the publick to whom he appeals, must, after all, be the judges of his pretensions.

Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

The work is performed, first by railing at the stupidity, negligence, ignorance, and asinine tastelessness of the former editors

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.