Quotes About Evaluation

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Value is what you get.

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

I think investors ought to focus on making sure that the stock is within their circle of competence, that it's worth a lot more than it's valued at - and once you have those two things, a stop-loss makes no sense.

Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

1. Acknowledgment that one is in crisis.

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

Art does not die because there is no more art; it dies because there is too much.

In the absence of value judgements, value goes up in flames. And it goes up in a sort of ecstasy.

Listen very carefully to the first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that the reviewers don't like; it may be the only thing in your work that is original and worthwhile.

Beware, so long as you live, or judging men by their outwards appearance.

Mancando le qualità morali di misura precisa, se anche ci fosse l'accordo sul segno, come ci potrebbe essere sulla valutazione?

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

I have a vested interest in this thing because I want to see you happy. What you need to ask yourself is this: Are you a better person when you're with him? Are you kinder or smarter or happier? Do you think you do more good in the world? One man can be perfectly fine but maybe he doesn't bring out what's good in you, in which case I suggest you not be with him. But if you find a man who makes you better then you need to listen to that.

Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ?

sólo el perro o el caballo podrían emitir un juicio de conjunto sobre el hombre y declarar que el hombre es asombroso, lo que ellos no se preocupan de hacer, por lo menos que yo sepa. Pero no se puede admitir que un hombre pueda formular un juicio sobre el hombre.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.