Quotes About Evaluation

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.

What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better.

Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.

What gets measured gets done.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

In god we trust.. everyone else will and shall be judged.. make peace with it

You only have one chance for a first impression.

What the average call excellent, the excellent call average.

A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future

It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial - it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was.