Quotes About Evaluation

If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list...Seeing it down in black and white, somehow you're always disappointed in your life expectancy. How little you'll get done. The resume of your future.

We use criticism as a fake participation.

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Quid? Quod eadem mente res dissimillimas comprehendimus, ut colorem saporem, calorem, odorem, sonum? Quae numquam quinque nuntiis animus cognosceret, nisi ad eum omnia referrentur et is omnium iudex solus esset.

If you're fixin' to get yourself a good stallion, don't go lookin' in the donkey corral.

the newspaper is the Christian's report card. By reading the local news we can tell what kind of job we are doing as intercessors. I often encourage people to "pray the news.

We adhere to the saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," while not really questioning whether "it" is "broke.

When a measurable trajectory of improvement has been established, determining whether a new technology is likely to improve a product's performance relative to earlier products is an unambiguous question.

As you're living your life from day to day, how do you make sure you're heading in the right direction? Watch where your resources flow. If they're not supporting the strategy you've decided upon, then you're not implementing that strategy at all.

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ( Casual Chance , 1964)

Look at your failed life, Joffrey: It is standing right in front of you

He stopped hooking up with other people once he realized the first thing he did was calculate whether or not he could outrun them.

Logotherapy conceives of conscience as a prompter which, if need be, indicates the direction in which we have to move in a given life situation. In order to carry out such a task, conscience must apply a measuring stick to the situation one is confronted with, and this situation has to be evaluated in the light of a set of criteria, in the light of a hierarchy of values

And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

You have been marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character.

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

Roses, she thought sardonically, All trash, m'dear.

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or disliking?

Is it the lot of average human being, however, he asked himself, the criterion by which we judge the measure of civilization?

At any rate, where books are concerned, it is notoriously difficult to fix labels of merit in such a way that they do not come off.

There they hang in the mind the shapes of the books we have read solidified by the judgments we have passed on them — Robinson Crusoe , Emma , The Return of the Native . Compare the novels with these – even the latest and least of novels has a right to be judged with the best.