Quotes About Evaluation

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?

Se puede dar o rehusar de una manera mucho más efectiva, elaborada, útil, por completo invisible para las personas que piensan que dar o rehusar es un hecho producto de evaluación externa. Si buscas algún indicio de favor o "promoción", debes saber que no estás listo. El progreso llega a través de la capacidad de aprender, y es irresistible. Nadie puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres apto para éste.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

Es el orfebre quien puede evaluar el oro.

Three things you can be judged by your voice, your face, and your disposition.

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

Look in the mirror and ask yourself if you are the best version of you.

You have to consider the quality of the cargo and not the weight

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.

We have been swamped by a tsunami of new technologies, without pausing to consider whether they are good or bad, helpful or hurtful. Are they making us more thoughtful, more articulate, more loving?

Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's not realistic, and it's also not wise.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

It all came down to judging—if you were a good judge of the man in front of you, you might survive; if not, then you were the honored dead.

As the saying goes, a cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Small chains wound their way through the trigger guards with little bronze locks at the end of each row. It was like a chain gang for weapons. Some of them might be good, some of them might be bad, but there was no way to tell until somebody picked them up.

Sometimes I put a star in the right-hand corner to signal that this paper has thinking on it that I might want to share in a mini-lesson the next day.

Never judge someone by who he's in love with judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.