Quotes About Evaluation

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Look before you leap.

Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

and the ones they like are the ones where they can say, yes, that's a movie. They can see it. Even if parts of it need work; maybe some of the jokes don't work, maybe some of the characters are a little cliché, maybe some of the stuff is a little repetitive. But if you can see the movie, there's a chance it might get made, even if they have

it calls for deciding things on their own merit, not because you read it or were told it or grew up believing it.

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

42 A few months after Nash got out, Baumecker called the Institute for Advanced Study and asked to speak to Oppenheimer about whether Nash was now sane. Oppenheimer replied, "That's something no one on earth can tell you, doctor.

Days will come when the magic of the senses shall fade. And when this enchantment has fled, then it first becomes evident whether we are truly worthy of love.

Routines without ongoing assessment lead to stagnation and mediocrity.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Zbudzi?em si? o tej mrocznej godzinie, która zaczyna beznadziejny jesienny dzie?. (...) To jest godzina podliczania kasy ?yciowej, godzina codziennego obrachunku. Kiedy? ludzie podsumowywali si? o pó?nocy, przed ci??kim za?ni?ciem, teraz bij? si? w piersi nad ranem, obudzeni ?oskotem zdychaj?cego serca.

Don't judge the quality of the gasoline by the filling station attendant.

One of the hurdles of adulthood is when holidays become measuring sticks against which you always fall short.

But the yardstick is not only contrived, it's too short: my consistently perfect scores don't tell them anything, because they have no basis for comparison this far out on the bell curve.

We shouldn't automatically accept that natural is better, nor should we automatically presume that we can improve on nature. It's up to us to decide which qualities we value, and what's the best way to achieve those.

I don't delude myself with either self-pity or conceit: I can evaluate my own psychological state with the utmost objectivity and consistency. I know precisely which emotional resources I have and which I lack, and how much value I place on each. I have no regrets.