Quotes About Evaluation

I can't figure out if I like him. He's polite. It's the kind of politeness that makes you feel full, as if you've eaten too much jam

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

Once we see that living up to our standards appears to be leading us toward self-destruction, the time has come to question our standards rather than simply resigning ourselves to living without integrity.

It is evaluative praise that does not serve a child's interests. Appreciative praise, in contrast, can be productive both in supporting self-esteem and in reinforcing desired behavior.

Let me say further that one of the characteristics of persons with healthy self-esteem is that they tend to assess their abilities and accomplishments realistically, neither denying nor exaggerating them.

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?

man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

submission. Is that the world you want to live in?

Even now, at the end of her life, she still has to face that inevitable question. What good are you?

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

what was the difference between a movie critic and the average movie-goer? Answer: the critic didn't have to pay.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives—of approving of some and disapproving of others.

They did not talk much while they ate, other than for Ada to say that the Georgia boy did not seem like much of a one as far as men went. Ruby said she found him not particularly worse than the general order of men, which is to say that he would greatly benefit from having someone's foot in his back every waking minute.

So, standing here looking at you, all grown up, the question I ask is simple. In the long run, how different is a goddam hot dog from a Vienna sausage?

In the end, he said he judged the Bible to be a sound book. Nevertheless

The glass isn't half-empty or half-full. What you're looking at is half a pint of depreciable assets sitting in a pint of capital infrastructure that can be amortized over two accounting periods. ... Is there an engineering one? ... Yes! It's quite simple: That's half a pint, all that's wrong is the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

If average students are increasingly getting the highest possible grade, how can employers and graduate schools identify the truly exceptional

The purpose of any program evaluation is to provide some kind of counterfactual against which a treatment or intervention can be measured.

In the case of a randomized, controlled experiment, the control group is the counterfactual

The ratings agencies were supposed to be the ones who made sense of this process by evaluating individual securities and assigning them a rating based on their relative risk: AAA, AA, BBB, and so on.

So let's summarize: (1) these schools are being recognized as "excellent" for having students with high test scores; (2) to get into such a school, one must have high test scores. This is the logical equivalent of giving an award to the basketball team for doing such an excellent job of producing tall students.