Quotes About Evaluation

Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It is intrinsically impossible for the pope, as pope, to speak with authority on the details of climate science. Nor is he better suited than you or I to evaluate the so-called "consensus" of actual scientists. He might as well be picking stocks or rewriting the scores of Broadway musicals, for which he has equal divine authority: none. He

I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, colored by what you thought of them.

So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark.

I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else.

conducts a swift mental list of people she

So this is it. You are scored on my heart,

one had once completed without thought now required planning and careful assessment.

She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, coloured by what you thought of them. It

She looked me up and down as she had when we'd first met, as if my own wardrobe had failed some invisible test.

You are scored on my heart,

Context can influence what actions we choose to make and how we choose to make them, it can influence how these actions are judged by ourselves and others, and thus how successful and significant they turn out to be.

Slowly, I have learned to judge myself by whether I am being the person I want to be and living by my values, not calculating the value of my possessions or accomplishments.

Great ideas can't be tested. Only mediocre ideas can be tested.

Esquire magazine: "Great ideas can't be tested. Only mediocre ideas can be tested." It sums up how I feel about trying to measure radical ideas. You simply can't. You can't apply data to see if you should do a radical idea. You do the radical idea, and then you measure how it worked.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.

That passage makes, clearly and for the first time, the crucial distinction between rejecting an argument for a conclusion and rejecting the conclusion itself. The art of criticism cannot thrive unless that distinction is grasped. (pp51)

The ultimate good is to treat something according to it's true value.

He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.

Aristotle often evaluated a thing with respect to its "telos"—its purpose, end, or goal. The telos of a knife is to cut. A knife that does not cut well is not a good knife.