Quotes About Evaluation

If you don't know when you're good, how can you know when you're bad?

Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.

When students are not asked to assess, but only to remember, they do not learn how to assess or how to think for themselves.

Robin looked at Daniel and had the meanest thought of her life: "He'll do.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

Did you ever think you had all the answers when you were in the thick of something, but then when you take a step back, you realize you were so busy getting things done that you never stopped to ask yourself if it's what you really want to do?

We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

It was assumed that genre films could not have any artistic merit, because the were not original works and because they were not authored works. These standards of evaluation are based upon a romantic theory of art that places the highest value on the concepts of originality, person creativity, and the idea of individual artist as genius.

There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America.

Garza narrowed his eyes, then leaned back in his

The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It's just that simple.

It's just that I'm happy now, and I guess that's how we judge a place, isn't it? Not for what it is, but for what we are when we live there.

Kritiikin terve verenkierto: kurkut poikki.

All too often, women fall in love with a man's speech and overlook who he actually is. If you think you might already be dating such a guy, take a step back and ask yourself: "Is my boyfriend doing what's best for me, or just doing what feels good for him?

Once you [work on your idea extra hours], you'll learn whether your excitement and interest is real or just a passing phase.

Rather than demand whatever it takes, we ask, What will it take?

You have to keep asking yourself if the way you're working today is the way you'd want to work in 10, 20, or 30 years. If not, now is the time to make a change, not "later.

One of the secret benefits of hiring remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

We don't want reactions. We don't want first impressions. We don't want knee-jerks. We want considered feedback. Read it over. Read it twice, three times even. Sleep on it. Take your time to gather and present your thoughts—just like the person who pitched the original idea took their time to gather and present theirs.

Do we look at Harvard or Oxford and say, "If they'd only expand and branch out and hire thousands more professors and go global and open other campuses all over the world … then they'd be great schools." Of course not. That's not how we measure the value of these institutions. So why is it the way we measure businesses?

Así que espera a que tu última gran idea se enfríe un poco. Por supuesto, no dejes de tener grandes ideas. Ni de entusiasmarte con ellas. Sencillamente no reacciones al calentón. Apúntalas y déjalas reposar unos días. Y entonces, determina cuál es su verdadera importancia con la mente más clara.

Resumés are ridiculous

The enthusiasm you have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth.