Quotes About Evaluation

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, which released them from the necessity of understanding it.

He condemned nothing in haste and without taking circumstances into account. He said, Examine the road over which the fault has passed.

averages: a few times I've been in rooms with a hundred ordinary people and my acquaintance Warren Buffett, which meant the average person's net worth in those rooms

If you read, you'll judge.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Criticism is a life without risk.

I believe it is pretty well established now that neither the intuition of the sales manager nor even the first reaction of the public is a reliable measure of the value of a product to the consumer. Very often the best way to find out whether something is worth making is to make it, distribute it, and then to see, after the product has been around a few years, whether it was worth the trouble.

I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.

The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.

The bad things can't matter more than the good things

I am indeed my most unmerciful critic.

Meaning…they say the best way to judge what a man will do is by looking at what he's done in the past.

But it's funny how you can take something that turns out to be fatal and classify it as not worth fixing.

But I picked it out. I didn't want you to think I had terrible taste in movies." "But you hadn't seen it. If you'd seen it nine times and really wanted me to see it the tenth time with you, and I hated it, I might think you had bad taste in movies. Which isn't the most terrible thing in the world, by the way. But you were just guessing. Anybody can guess wrong.

the best way to judge what a man will do is by looking at what he's done in the past.

I don't know why you would even bring up the internet. The xeno-intelligence officer responsible for evaluating your digital communication required invasive emergency therapy after an hour's exposure. One glance at that thing is the strongest argument possible against the sentience of humanity. I wouldn't draw attention to it, if I were you.

You can tell all that about me from your measuring tape?' 'Well, I use the metric system, It's the only way to get really exact numbers.

certification of what constitutes "merit" and "quality." Nevertheless, and even granting the digital

secondary or insufficiently individualistic to warrant merit.