Quotes About Evaluation

Jefferson's uncomfortable dictum "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" applies outside the fields of politics as well; it means that we must constantly reevaluate what we do, lest habits and past wisdom blind us to new possibilities.

The function of consciousness is to represent information about what is happening outside and inside the organism in such a way that it can be evaluated and acted upon by the body.

means that we must constantly reevaluate what we do, lest habits and past wisdom blind us to new possibilities.

Every piece of information we process gets evaluated for its bearing on the self. Does it threaten our goals, does it support them, or is it neutral?

The word success is an ambiguous word. Success with respect to the outside? Or success with respect to oneself? And if it is a success with respect to the outside, then how do you evaluate it? Very often outside success is irrelevant, wrong, and misplaced. So how can one talk about it? Externally, you may think I am successful because people write about some aspects of my work. But that is an external judgment. And I have no idea as to how to value that judgment.

After an insight occurs, one must check it out to see if the connections genuinely make sense. The painter steps back from the canvas to see whether the composition works, the poet rereads the verse with a more critical eye, the scientist sits down to do the calculations or run the experiments. Most lovely insights never go any farther, because under the cold light of reason fatal flaws appear. But if everything checks out, the slow and often routine work of elaboration begins

At Linus Pauling's sixtieth birthday celebration, a student asked him, "Dr. Pauling, how does one go about having good ideas?" He replied, "You have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.

We are creating a culture, even if it's unintentional. The question is, do we like the culture we are creating?

I asked myself in the aftermath of the Siege of Terra whether the so-called victory was worth the cost. Now I wonder if we won at all.

A good collections firm will evaluate your file when you submit it to them for collections. The "you cannot get blood from a turnip" rule applies here. If it is really ugly and there is no obvious chance of getting a dime, then you are wasting your money moving forward on this previous tenant. A good collections company will tell you it is a waste of money to move forward.

Remember, an incomplete application is a reason to disqualify.)

The only judgment comes from yourself, the sternest judge of all, as you know too well.

Every design is a trade-off.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Our humanity is not a standard by which we are to measure his. His humanity, true and unadulterated, is the standard by which we are to be measured.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Although, if you like everything you read, I can't take you seriously. Perhaps you didn't think about these books long enough.

I checked to see if he and I had a special connection that was greater than his bond with his mother. We didn't.

Analyze your diary by determining what seems excessive in your judgment. You might begin by asking, "What could I live without—or at least with less of?

Unaware that our culture has subverted our faith, we lose a place from which to judge our own culture

Don't begin to tell me how much you can judge a man by his faults

First thoughts are not always the best.

First, does the manipulation change the structure of the existing situation, or does it instead change the second party's assessment of the situation? • Second, does the manipulation offer the second party an improvement, or does it instead lead the second party to accept a result that is not an improvement?

Las cosas no valen sino lo que se las hace valer.