Quotes About Evaluation

To notice a difference is to have an opinion about it—unless one refuses to think. And that is my ultimate objection to nonjudgmentalism. We can refuse to voice our judgments, but we cannot keep from having them unless we refuse to think about what is before our eyes.

Nor does one have the option of saying that differences exist but that one will not judge them. To notice a difference is to have an opinion about it—unless one refuses to think. And that is my ultimate objection to the nonjudgmental frame of mind. We can refuse to voice our opinions, our judgments, but we cannot keep from having them unless we refuse to think about what is before our eyes.

Dyspnea during pregnancy may be "physiologic" but still requires evaluation insofar as it may represent respiratory or cardiac illness.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science. —WILLIAM THOMSON, LORD KELVIN

We have three baskets: in, out, and too tough. … We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the "too tough" basket.

The ideally free Ego would be a lucid calculator of payoffs.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Most men's eyes, when you look at them critically, are not like that. They may look at you very expressively, but when you look at them, just as features, they are not very nice.

We evaluate ourselves based upon what we like to think… Others evaluate us based upon coming over/around or through…

He's not like his father. She reconsidered this. I mean, he's not perfect. But he's not Scarface.

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

One is forced to examine one's life when trapped in the wall by a Murphy bed.

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

...Shall I go on? Or have I said enough?...

Statistics is a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

There are many who measure what they are doing by what they can report. They go out with garrulity in the morning, and come back with statistics at night.

Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?

Fire tests metal, wine tests men.

There are people who place a basket on your head to see what you carry.

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. 

JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers.

very often the main problem we face in making a good decision is not the lack of information but our limited capability to process that information