Quotes About Evaluation

It assumes that better means faster. By those standards, a typewriter is nothing but a very bad computer.

The only thing worth believing in is measurement.

Public judgment is nothing but shared schizophrenia

two examiners, said simply that hardly anyone in Denmark was well enough informed on the subject to judge the candidate's work.

Genuine humility is based on a realistic self-appraisal and a healthy feeling of self-worth.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

Hell, at twenty, he'd been ready to junk everything and start over too. But now, at sixty, he was less willing to throw things away that could be patched together and kept running for a few more months. He wanted to keep going forward, not stop and turn around and analyze the validity of decisions made and courses charted long ago.

Human life, for Nietzsche, is ultimately a part of a kind of vast game…[which] is, so to speak, the only game in town….The nature of the game, he holds, establishes a standard for the evaluation of everything falling within its compass. The availability of this standard places evaluation on footing that is as firm as that on which the comprehension of life and the world stands.

Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.

There should be a sex-related metric with which you could measure sex in hotels, especially the illicit variety, but of what would that metric consist? How about increments of remorse?

There should be a way to test this, there should be a sex-related metric with which you could measure sex in hotels, especially the illicit variety, but of what would that metric consist?

Just curious how much I'm going for these days, Leo said. I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe...but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?

Scale of one to ten How would you rate your demise? Thanks for your input

Was I really such a terrible mother?' she asked Bertie. 'Why the past tense?' Bertie said. Sow and reap.

suspected everyone did—from Winnie, the least pulchritudinous

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they're doing now.

His brow furrowed in a way that suggested he was calculating my likely ability to be that naive.

Like God in the Bible, they looked at what they had made and found it very good

Within psychiatric circles, if you kill yourself, you earn the right to be considered a "successful" suicide. This is a success one can live without.

É muito fácil", acrescentei eu, "criticar quando estamos só de passagem.

Do I pass, Dr. Saunders?

un autor que no ve nada malo en la sociedad en la que vive quizá no sea tomado en serio. Es más inteligente incluir una pizca de crítica, aunque solo sea por

we can find flaws in their methodology