Quotes About Evaluation

If somebody said about me, 'I don't think his jokes are good, I don't think he's a good comedian,' I don't like to read that but that's a fair thing to say.

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Read Not to Contradict Or Confute Nor To Believe Or Take For Granted But To Weigh And Consider Oh the side of my high school building

no man is a good judge in his own case.

The ability to compare, and to evaluate, other human beings was the fountainhead of human unhappiness...

Whether or not true free will exists, virtually all human beings act as if it does, and evaluate each other on the basis of their ability to make what they believe to be genuine moral choices.

Another occupation might have been better.

What is the tactful, the effective way of announcing that your life's work has been wasted?

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.

My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that's dangerous, because you're going to slip and fall in your life.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

you come to rely, more than anything else, on first sight. You walk into the room and you think, sick or not sick. Not sick goes home as fast as possible. Sick, you watch. You draw blood, you order X rays, you give them fluids. You are careful, because a little bell went off in your head when you walked into the room and saw them.

The beauty of pragmatism is that it enables one to make judgements based on supposed consequences, which always lie in the future and are thus immediately unverifiable.

The true work of the critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him

The American people are quite competent to judge a political party that works both sides of a street.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

En vez de convertir a la humanidad en la medida de todas las cosas, tenemos que evaluar a las otras especies por lo que son ellas mismas. Al hacerlo, estoy seguro de que descubriremos muchos pozos mágicos, incluyendo algunos que por ahora están más allá de nuestra imaginación.

Their earlier poor performance had had more to do with the way they were tested than with their mental powers. Elephants

True empathy is not self-focused but other-oriented. Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are. In doing so, I am sure we will discover many magic wells, including some as yet beyond our imagination.

We seek ecological validity in our studies and follow the advice of Uexküll, Lorenz, and Imanishi, who encouraged human empathy as a way to understand other species. True empathy is not self-focused but other-oriented. Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are.

True empathy is not self-focused but other-oriented. Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are.

The truth is that our competition is anyone our customers compare us to.

What can it mean, 150 years after Darwin, to say that some species or communities are good and some are bad?