Quotes About Evaluation

Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye,Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.

Let the end try the man.

I have seen better faces in my timeThan stands on any shoulder that I seeBefore me at this instant.

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;Between two blades, which bears the better temper;Between two horses, which doth bear him best;Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;I have perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment;But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

Jiddu Krishnamurti: "To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

When, for instance, we say that a literary work is good or bad, we are making a value judgment (...) Objective evidence for subjective preferences does not makes the value judgment itself objective, but merely objectifies the preference.

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

When you say 'This is a bad thing that's happening,' how often are you wrong?

It is a good idea to start the year by writing down exactly what you want to accomplish, and end the year by measuring how much you have accomplished. McKinsey imposes this discipline on its partners and pays them according to how many of the things on their lists they accomplish. Leadership

I thought it best, finally, to start seeing where I've been rather than where I'm going.

We are working so hard in this country on the details of school improvement that we don't always stop to consider the big picture—if we are actually working on the right things.

Socrates had it backward. He thought the unexamined life is not worth living. I think no one's life holds up to examination. The more time you spend thinking the more you notice that everyone else is doing something better or more important than you.

Needless to say, there is a karmic rebound. The more we value money, the more we find it used—and the more we use it ourselves—to evaluate us. Money takes on a life of its own, and we end up being manipulated by the symbol we take so seriously. In this sense, the problem is not that we are too materialistic but that we are not materialistic enough, because we are so preoccupied with the symbolism that we end up devaluing life itself.

Suffering is to cyclists what poll data are to politicians; they rely on it to tell them how well they are doing their job.

Wise adults begin relationships not with the romance phase but with an investigation phase. We check out the other, looking to see if he or she is trustworthy, has the ability to give the five A's, and possesses the qualities that are important to us. Only when we are secure in the knowledge that the other is trustworthy do we open ourselves to letting love happen.

I find myself thinking, "I'm not so sure this is a great idea." I find myself saying, "Great.

Artists, on the other hand, talk to determine what works, what does not, and why. Their focus is more on the micro; it moves from the inside out.

If you don't know what you are purchasing, you are just taking unnecessary risk. If you haven't done your homework to really understand the characteristics of an investment class, you are taking risk.