Quotes About Evaluation

Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them "god for us" or "bad for us." The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our lives. The event doesn't make that determination- we do.

I wouldn't want to be summarily exterminated by aliens who judged the whole human race on the behavior of Charles Manson, for example

I'd say ye can't know what code ye live by until it's tested.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being 'judgemental' is ill thought of and resented. But what if we want our deeds, our natures, our very souls to be summed up and evaluated? A line to be drawn under our acts to date? A punishment declared, amends made, the slate wiped clean? A born-again Christian, trying to explain his new sense of freedom, once said to me, "All my debts are paid".

judges are men who in the cool of the evening undo work that better men do in the heat of the day.

When you are learning how to do something, you do not have to worry about whether or not you are good at it. But when you have done something, have learned how to do it, you are not safe any more. Being an expert opens you up to judgement.

Being a novice is safe. When you are learning how to do something, you do not have to worry about whether or not you are good at it. But when you have done something, have learned how to do it, you are not safe any more. Being an expert opens you up to judgement.

She never was able to surrender a feeling without a review of its peaks and low points.

George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

Confidence spark If you're feeling shaky about taking an action that could prove risky, use this exercise to determine if the action is what I call a best bet, a smart risk worth taking. First, analyze the pros and cons. Say you're offered a job working for a start-up company. How many pluses and minuses can you list? Which do you have more of? Second,

MYTH When I feel criticized, I react defensively and I can't be objective. TRUTH I have the ability to discriminate, take what fits, and leave the rest.

Feedback tells us how we are really being perceived, so if we are not getting it, we need to ask for it.

The moral of the story: don't react, especially when you are hungry and tired! Process the feedback at a time when you can take an honest look at what is being said.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Statistics are no substitue for judgement.

What have you done?

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas. An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas

Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas.