Quotes About Evaluation

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

It is not possible to make a certain evaluation...that cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'.

In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and its obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they can also bring you lots of opportunities to do amazing things.

Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.

If the people in our state and national governments undertook to evaluate economic enterprises by the standards of long-term economics, they would have to employ their minds in actual thinking. For many of them, this would be a shattering experience, something altogether new, but it would also cause them to learn things and do things that would improve the lives of their constituents.

But some words to men and women, boys and girls alike: The quality of the work must merit the readers' time and money. Do it for yourself, but make yourself a member of your own audience. There is no other way to evaluate your own progress.

Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it. Only

Herbert Spencer] was ready in those days to give everything a trial; he even thought of migrating to New Zealand, forgetting that a young country has no use for philosophers. It was characteristic of him that he made parallel lists of reasons for and against the move, giving each reason a numerical value. The sums being 110 points for remaining in England and 301 for going, he remained.

An ancient critic spoke of him as "moderate to excess.

ethnocentrism—the tendency to evaluate the customs of other groups according to one's own cultural standards.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe. (on Mark Twain)

CiteÅŸte, citeÅŸte, citeÅŸte. CiteÅŸte totul – gunoi, clasicii, r?ii ÅŸi bunii, ÅŸi vezi cum scriu. La fel ca un tâmplar care lucreaz? ca ucenic ÅŸi îÅŸi studiaz? maestrul. CiteÅŸte! Vei absorbi asta. Apoi scrie. Dac? ai scris ceva bun, vei afla. Dac? nu, arunc? ce-ai scris pe fereastr?.

All of us failed to match our dream of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

But Southern California, in its sprawling, edgeless blandness, was losing its baseline status in my mind. It was no longer the place by which all other places had to be measured.

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.

But, to judge the action fairly, we must transport ourselves to the age when it happened.

Is it dangerous? Hmm. Well, define 'dangerous.' Is a knife 'dangerous'? Is Russian roulette 'dangerous'? Is arsenic 'dangerous'? ...It really depends on your perspective.

Judge not the horse by his saddle.

Take a second look... It costs you nothing.

Gold is tested by fire, man by gold