Quotes About Evaluation

The first key idea is that when you have a challenge for which measuring progress is hard, the ability to adapt is just as important as the ability to plan.

Almost every night I say, "I wish I had done much better,

No matter how sensible-seeming or wild an idea, the smart thinker asks: Does it work? When put to the test, can its predictions be confirmed? Subjected to such scrutiny, crazy-sounding ideas sometimes find support.

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

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

Who was the first man to look at a house full of objects and immediately assess them only in terms of what he could get for them in the market? Surely, he can only have been a thief.

In fact, from inside the system, the algorithms and mathematical formulae by which the world comes to be assessed become, ultimately, not just measures of value, but the source of value itself.

Research is an organized method of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.

Novices start out with the physical skills of mastering the clutch, throttle, brakes, and balance. Veterans understand that motorcycling is really more of a mental process of scrutinizing the situation, evaluating the hazards, and deciding what to do with the motorcycle.

was unworthy, almost dishonest, to put a number on somebody's capacities.

I might want to be critical, but I don't wish to be destructive.

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

All our words and actions pass in review before God.

I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'

Humility begins with seeing who God is, seeing yourself compared to God, and then seeing yourself as God sees you.

Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria

God's standard of judgment goes down to the intents of the heart.

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

By God ye shall be called to account for your doings!

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.