Quotes About Evaluation

Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage? I read on, and I find myself smiling at that sound-fleshed young girl, her daring and her folly and her many fears.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Always ask: What is the absolute risk increase?

It is another property of the human mind that whenever men can form no idea of distant and unknown things, they judge them by what is familiar and at hand.

Disse che mi avrebbe preso nove. In teoria la soluzione in un tempo così breve avrebbe meritato il massimo, aggiunse, però se mi avesse messo dieci avrebbe dato per implicito che non c'era nulla da migliorare e avrebbe contribuito a farmi sprecare il mio talento.

When you keep someone waiting you give him time to count up your faults.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

But the rules which the agent observes and the criteria which he applies are one with those which govern the spectator's applause and jeers.

The mind is useful in making distinctions between things, finding differences, and evaluating them.

A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.

John Weakland, uno de los maestros de la Escuela de Palo Alto, afirma que el error que cometen con más frecuencia los seres humanos, y la raíz además de muchos problemas, es infravalorar o, por el contrario, sobrevalorar a los interlocutores y a sí mismos.

I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.

Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.

Union leaders essentially want the public to believe that all teachers are equal and deserve to be paid and treated that way—but that's clearly not the case. Some teachers are much more effective than others in helping kids learn, yet school policies and pay scales do little to recognize or reward their efforts.

God challenged me to match my outsides with my insides. I had to reevaluate my priorities and my expectations for myself. It was a time of brutal honesty, loneliness, and shattered pride. But it was drenched in a message of hope and redemption.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say — but I can say they are certainly no worse.

What use is decency when we have been thrust into this peril—treading about without even a corset! Are we to be judged?

The old saying in defense planning is that one must judge an adversary's capabilities, rather than its intentions.

If it's worth getting upset over, then go ahead, but is it really?

Do not mistake a goat's beard for a fine stallion's tail.

A critic would sacrifice the entire rose to find fault with the thorn.