Quotes About Evaluation

I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is wrong with France. I think there is a general expat syndrome, which means that whatever country you are in, you are always missing your own country and always thinking that the country you live in is actually not as good as it could be.

Trump is a systemic stress test.

I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.

Decision making is a skill.

We take the position that research - not anecdotes, not "plausible beliefs", not common sense, and not our everyday experience - should be the basis for understanding and evaluating our decision-making achievements and defeats.

One should never judge anything unless it is known.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

If she got the fifty grand and picked a college that wasn't too far away, I might drop in after she had been there a while to see what effect she was having. It was a cinch that she would have more effect on it than it would have on her.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts, Robert Browning.

If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?

In order to change beliefs, we first need to learn a way of finding out the qualities of beliefs.

In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my mind about whether a business proposal excites me within about thirty seconds of looking at it. I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

If only we had the power to see ourselves in the same way that others see us.' Of all the mantras one might adopt in life, this is surely one of the better ones and for anyone in a leadership role it should be an essential part of the checks and balances that are built into a company's standard operating procedures.

Una buena pregunta para el candidato es: "¿qué no incluiste en el CV?". Siempre he valorado más la capacidad que la experiencia

estado tan peligroso que consiste en creer que uno está haciendo bien las cosas si no está peor que la competencia.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

Swedes, Germans and Britons, when tested in a similar manner, do the same, selecting positive adjectives to describe their own culture.

As is often true of biblical literature, it is up to the reader to hear and appraise the contradictory messages and then create from them a pattern of meaning that relates to the reader's particular situation.

Scheff called shame the social emotion because pride and shame provide the social evaluative feedback as we experience ourselves as if through others' eyes.

PROBLEM 1. Assume yourself richer by $300 than you are today. You are offered a choice between A. A sure gain of $100, or [72%] B. A 50% chance to gain $200 and a 50% chance to lose $0. [28%] PROBLEM 2. Assume yourself richer by $500 than you are today. You are offered a choice between A. A sure loss of $100, or [36%] B. A 50% chance to lose $200 and a 50% chance to lose $0.

In complex situations, the Just Maximize Choices mantra is not enough to create good policy.

This scoring system has no effect on the grade you get in the course, but it seems to make you happier.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.