Quotes About Evaluation

You can know that you are judging illegitimately when your standard rests outside of Scripture, such as judging motives. Clearly, judging the motives of another places you outside the parameters of legitimate judging.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

A people never hears censure of itself.

Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

It was part of the beauty, but also the tragedy, of this sport that the spectators were the ultimate judges of who sat on the throne.

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

La clave para no caer en identificaciones falsas es aprender a discriminar la importancia real (objetiva, sin sesgos) de la importancia ficticia (exagerada y sin arraigo en la realidad) de las cosas o las personas con las que nos vinculamos.

Abrir la mente a la autoobservación y a la autoevaluación inteligente significa dejar entrar la duda razonable y someterse al fuero de la razón.

Qué es la autocrítica? Examinar las propias creencias, valores y comportamientos y descubrir lo inútil, lo absurdo o lo peligroso de nuestra manera de pensar.

Sooner or later you must confront this demon of comparison.

in addition to asking what went wrong, you should also ask, In this failure, what went right? (Conversely, when you try out something and it seems to have succeeded, look for what went wrong or could have been better

Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

I make no attempt to forecast the general market -- my efforts are devoted to finding undervalued securities.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Brooks punished them in drills on the ice and gave them a 300-question test to assess their psychological makeup off it. He was relentless. If they couldn't take this small sampling of life under Brooks, they wouldn't last through one Olympic practice shift.

All comparison is based on memory, and memory is an image based on engrams. It follows that all judgement, evaluation, is an interpretation of images, for even the present is already a memory by the time we have seized it. Therefore the unending process of finding things "good" or "not so good" is a work of imagination. Would in not be futile indeed to suppose that such judgments, that is any and all judgments, could have any absolute existence or value?

The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.

We have more than enough people to remind us of that, to give us dispassionate evaluations of our mediocrity.

This is what we need from our parents, more than the truth about how small we are. We will have more than enough people to remind us of that, to give us dispassionate evaluations of our mediocrity.

The rest of their authors were thrown out there, much like shit flung at a wall, while the publisher waited to see who "stuck," or so it seemed to Kendall.

One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Self-esteem does not judge conscience because it is not responsible for right and wrong."

When a lie speaks the truth, should we judge by appearance or attitude?"

A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.