Quotes About Evaluation

caution believers who speak in tongues to evaluate carefully their motivation. Is it for the glory of God, or is it because of pressure from a group? Do you feel that you would be a lesser saint than others if you did not speak in tongues? The Bible urges you to pursue love, not tongues.

The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

The size of the experiment should have been limited in proportion to the risk-adjusted potential of the opportunity.

Life is a neverending series of judgment calls.

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

I eat bad poetry like a goat — and eat good poetry like a gourmand.

You know you're a skydiver when you analyze every flag you see in terms of it's too windy or it's not too windy to jump.

I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.

When asked his opinion of the French Revolution, Chinese Premier Zhou En-Lai in the 1950s famously remarked, "It's too early to tell.

Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker

It wasn't a beautiful face. But it was a nice face. It wasn't a face that could launch a thousand ships. Maybe two ships and a small yacht.

Pastor Bill Hybels says that seekers might look at our lives and ask themselves, "If I become a Christian, am I trading up or trading down?

If everything we do and create is done to the best of our ability, then until we compare it to something else, how can it be anything less than great?

Somehow to them, the press was always the judge of things scientific.

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

At the end of the day, developing goodness comes down to a simple question: Will this emotion, thought or action, increase or decrease my capacity for goodness?

You must make a clear distinction between your creative mode and your critical mode. The two are like water and oil, they do not mix.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

there is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages.

The next time you think that there's something that you "can't live without", wait for a week and then see if you're still alive or not

To work on a movement you need: A clear picture or feeling of how it is now A clear picture or feeling of how it should be A real-time feedback mechanism for identifying the difference. And

Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't control it. If you can't control it, you can't improve it.