Quotes About Evaluation

Doctors with high confidence in a judgment they made proved no more accurate than doctors with low confidence.

A good computer program consistently and automatically gives each factor its appropriate weight.

The brain gives us two ways to evaluate experiences like suffering—there is how we apprehend such experiences in the moment and how we look at them afterward—and the two ways are deeply contradictory.

You must decide whether you want a DO-CONFIRM checklist or a READ-DO checklist.

about whether the person could safely be kept on the job, and about how things might be turned around.

was willing to do what everyone else was extremely reluctant to do: to judge (or, as he prefers to say, to "assess") a fellow doctor.

the team decided whether the doctor was fit to return to practice. Neff

When should we try to fix and when should we not?

The amount of freedom you have in your life is not the measure of the worth of your life.

He was immediately taken aback, recognizing that an empty stomach is what we require for patients going to surgery. I tried to smooth matters over, saying that holding off was merely "routine procedure" until we had finished our evaluation.

Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.

Basically, he liked anything until it harmed him and then he was wary. All creatures in life had an equal chance with my brother, from terrier to psychotherapist. Those that impressed him with an especially keen mental ability, an amusing trick or had a large portion of food to offer would gain his favor. If my brother could find nothing of value to the person, he would dismiss them entirely.

Never ask people about your work.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard? John Galt

All beliefs are worth examining. The key is to notice your beliefs, and test them – not necessarily discard them.

Make a list of pros and cons and allow it to marinate for a few days. Gradually jettison the entries that equal each other—canceling out multiple arguments that amount to a single one in weight—and endorse the column in which a balance remains.

But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and consequently had no inkling of their crushing defeat.

Pirx had long ago observed that a man could be judged better by his behavior toward robots than toward his fellow man.

Ahora es cuando debes aprender a distinguir las cosas importantes de las que no lo son. En

Try to be a filter, not a sponge.

I am below average!

Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.