Quotes About Evaluation

Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

with an alteration in the mode of assessment, which I thought not for

But when did you ever undertake a voyage for the purpose of reviewing your own principles and getting rid of any of them that proved unsound?

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads

Accountability measures allow administrators to require the faculty to "teach to the test," rather than devise the curriculum according to its own judgment. In this way, college professors can be reduced to the same subordinate status to which elementary and secondary school teachers have already been relegated.

We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it.

Triazolam has received significant attention in the media because of an alleged association with serious aggressive behavioral manifestations. Therefore, the manufacturer recommends that the drug be used for no more than 10 days for treatment of insomnia and that physicians carefully evaluate the emergence of any abnormal thinking or behavioral changes in persons treated with triazolam, giving appropriate consideration to all potential causes. Triazolam was banned in Great Britain in 1991.

An estimated length of therapy should be decided at the beginning of therapy, and the need for continued therapy should be reevaluated at least monthly because of the problems associated with long-term use.

Bookstores should be broken down into two sections: books that suck and books that don't suck.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do -- of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

Milestones have never really meant a lot. They probably will mean more when I've finished playing and actually reflect on what I have achieved.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

I reflect over my actions; I don't dwell on them.

I'm a person who looks at myself, and after every game, I like to reflect on my performance, not just the team.

Before you go through with an experience, think about what you expect it to feel like. Once you've experienced it, reflect on whether your expectations differed from reality.

I think it's important to reflect at the conclusion of each season. That should never change, in terms of how you evaluate yourself.

I don't like to look back. But those occasions with zeros on the end are a good opportunity to reflect.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

I think I had a kind of pause for insight in my 20s when I wasn't in a relationship and my career wasn't going the way I wanted it to go. I had time for reflection then.

Everyone knows that you need to have a period of reflection at the end of the season.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.