Quotes About Evaluation

Ashlar: I have learned to live with a profound loneliness. I forget about it for years and years. Then it surfaces, the desire to be placed in context by somebody else. The desire to be known, understood, evaluated morally by a sophisticated mind. That was always the lure of the Talamasca, from the beginning, that I could go there and confide in my scholars, that we would talk late into the night.(...) Human beings very seldom survive without that kind of exchange, communication. Love.

How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.

You do not equal the project. Criticism of the project is not criticism of you.

There are "only two choices" in life: being criticized or "being ignored".

How can I create something that critics will criticize?

You need a formal business reinvention process. Put it in your calendar. Every three months, take your most trusted advisers, employees, backers, and even customers and get away from the phones for a little while. Start from scratch. "If we were starting over—no office, no employees, no customers—would we choose to be where we are today?" If the answer isn't, yes, then it's time to take a hard look at the path you took and the impact it has had on your business.

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

Excessively criticize the work of your peers, thus unrealistically raising the bar for your work.

The critic who doesn't like your work is correct. He doesn't like your work. This cannot be argued with.

Judec?m totul, iar oamenii ne judec? la rândul lor. Adeseori, aceste judec??i sunt subiective, incorecte È™i ineficiente, dar negarea lor nu le face s? dispar?.

As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, and evaluate as we approach a topic we thought we knew so much about.

History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in itself and for its own successes and transgressions. The

History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in itself and for its own successes and transgressions.

The best that any education can do is to add understanding of the past and present, to gird one for the future, to sharpen the intelligence, to enable one to evaluate whatever comes along, to listen, to learn, to question, to be interested in what is going on, to be involved, to believe "this concerns me," above all to keep the mind alive. This is what I believe Scott Fitzgerald did for me in his College of One.

Scott himself had taught me that in the boundless sphere of the intellect there is no prudishness, no shockability. There is only evaluation of facts, and a morality founded on truth.

Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other?...Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225

Am I the woman I think I am, the woman I want to be? More importantly, am I the woman the Savior needs me to be?

Dzilobommo considera el efecto de su comida en los comensales como un pintor considera el efecto de su cuadro sobre un observador.

You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while.

Kyra is working on a new program and I'm going to test it. (Chris) That's one way of putting it. (Urian)

Jeremy is as much use in that cockpit as a blow-up doll. Actually, that's not fair since the blow-up doll could be used as an air bag. (Carlos)

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, "Wow, that was awesome?" Or would they scratch their heads and say, "I wonder what that was all about?

It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.