Quotes About Evaluation

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?

In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

The challenging time of life will teach you two things, History: where did I get it wrong? and Future: How will I get it right?

Whether our life has been a triumph or tragedy can only be judged at its very end.

If you keep doubting every issue you come across in life, you will never consider any issue based on its merits.

I've learned that you can push people away any time you want, just to see who's important to you. But eventually, people are going to stop coming back. Let the dust settle on its own to see who's really there for you.

draw upon his knowledge of the world, if he read in a newspaper the names of the people who had been at a dinner-party, could tell at once its exact degree of smartness, just as a man of letters, simply by reading a sentence, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

je m'en croyais la possession entièrement assurée, que j'avais négligé d'en calculer la valeur, ce qui faisait qu'il me paraissait forcément inférieur à des plaisirs, si petits qu'ils fussent, mais que, cherchant à les imaginer, j'évaluais.

all those individuals who are better at analyzing than at valuing themselves.

Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chooses the person one loves after endless deliberation and on the strength of diverse qualities and advantages.

CAR TAPE. October 1994. I'd like to see us abolish the jury system. Why leave the fate of our nation in the hands of these moon rocks?

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

You will have to manage around the weaknesses of each and every employee. But if, with one particular employee, you find yourself spending most of your time managing around weaknesses, then know that you have made a casting error. At this point it is time to fix the casting error and to stop trying to fix the person.

To see Paul positively does not mean endorsing everything he ever wrote.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

It's only when you grow up and step back from him–or leave him for your own home–it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it.

If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful