Quotes About Evaluation

It's always a good idea to ask yourself, Where is this decision likely to lead? When you do, you can avoid many hassles and mistakes that are otherwise inevitable. By asking this simple question, you can keep your energy directed in areas that will serve you and others well.

Ask yourself this question: 'Will this matter a year from now?

Parsimony is always in the forefront of a scientist's mind when choosing between theories, but it isn't always obvious how to judge it.

It is a commonplace that good historians don't judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.

You can be a brilliant moral philosopher with a prize-winning doctoral thesis expounding the evils of war, and still be given a hard time by a draft board evaluating your claim to be a conscientious objector. Yet if you can say that one or both of your parents is a Quaker you sail through like a breeze, no matter how inarticulate and illiterate you may be on the theory of pacifism or, indeed, Quakerism itself.

The cost of contemplating history is often an uneasy conscience.

François Truffaut contended that critics were themselves blocked directors, as he had been when he was a critic.

An act of art needs time to mature. Judged early, it may be judged incorrectly.

juries should ask not Is he guilty? but rather Is he dangerous?

My parents' marriage, to my unforgiving nineteen-year-old eye, was a car crash of cliché. Though I would have to admit, as the one making the judgement, that a 'car crash of of cliché' is itself a cliché.

If you know what you have, you know what to throw away.

To me, a recently read novel was like a miniature planet: only a few hours earlier I had been breathing its air and living contentedly among its people - and now I was expected to pronounce a judgement about its worth?

Grading papers," he repeated with scorn. "There is no human achievement so great, that a freshman cannot reduce it to drivel.

I can hardly believe that the face is so important to a man's existence. A man's worth should be gauged by the content of his work; possibly the convolutions of the surface of the brain have something to do with it, but his face certainly does not. If the loss of a face can cause conspicuous change in the scale of evaluation, it may well be owing to a fundamental emptiness of content.

ÄŒím je ?lovÄ›k nedokonalejÅ¡í, tím pÃ…â"¢ísnÄ›jÅ¡ím kritikem má tendence se stát.

I can hardly believe that the face is so important to a man's existence. A man's worth should be gauged by the content of his work; possibly the convolutions of the surface of the brain have something to do with it, but his face certainly does not. If the loss of a face can cause conspicuous change in the scale of evaluation, it may well be owing to a fundamental emptiness of content.

I had better think things through carefully again after I have returned with your surrender in hand.

Every day I examine myself on three counts: in what I have undertaken on another's behalf, have I failed to do my best? In my dealings with my friends, have I failed to be trustworthy in what I say? Have I passed on to others anything that I have not tried out myself?71

The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind.

The word 'autopsy' means, literally, 'to see for oneself.

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation

Ce n'est pas parce qu'un livre n'a pas de succès qu'il est forcément bon.

Her amused, silent evaluation hammered my spine with spikes of frozen fire.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.