Evaluation famous quotes

If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.
-- Albert Ellis

#People #Perception #Evaluation

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
-- Brian Eno

#Ideas #Feelings #Evaluation

Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.
-- Bruce Lee

#Evaluation #Guides

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.
-- Bruce Lee

#Mirrors #Self #Evaluation

Every person is highly individualized so if a person is seriously concerned, then they first need to get a medical evaluation and make sure there's nothing biologically going on to prevent them from climaxing.
-- Drew Pinsky

#Evaluation #Firsts #Needs

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.
-- Eleanor Catton

#Men #Evaluation #Disposition

The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.
-- Henry Cloud

#Gratitude #And Love #Evaluation

Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be defensive when they hear it.
-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

#Communication #People #Evaluation

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.
-- Mikhail Bakhtin

#Evaluation #Used #Contradictory

The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.
-- Moses Hess

#Focus #Historical #Evaluation

A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. […] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70)
-- Neil Postman

#Book #Past #Evaluation

Well, I know how the system works. I know that there's something called the MELD system, which is nationwide. There are zones as far as evaluation of need for liver transplants.
-- Pat Summerall

#Evaluation #Needs #Wells

Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals.
-- Quentin L. Cook

#Order #Goal #Evaluation

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Breakfast #Evaluation #Chance

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.
-- Sherwood Anderson

#Acceptance #Men #Evaluation

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
-- Stanislav Grof

#Data #Evaluation #Events

Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight
-- Thomas Kuhn

#Men #Evaluation #Facts

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
-- Viswanathan Anand

#Chess #Evaluation #Sometimes

An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for astrict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.
-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Faithful #Special #Evaluation

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
-- Winston Churchill

#Decision #Information #Evaluation

If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.
-- Deborah Day

#Attitude #Evaluation #Difficult Times

The risk pertinent to a particular attempt (and to its evaluation as an attempt of its sort) is the risk that the agent will fail to attain the end constitutive of that attempt. This risk of failure is coordinate with how likely or unlikely it may be that the agent will then succeed.
-- Ernest Sosa

#Risk #Evaluation #Succeed

There are some that are - REM Behavior Disorder, we'll see some court documented cases. And they really need to have a thorough evaluation with a sleep specialist.
-- Shelby Harris

#Sleep #Needs #Evaluation

One of the more difficult things about being a judge is as you're listening to the evidence, you have to be formulating how you're going to explain your evaluation of that evidence.
-- Steven Pacey

#Judging #Listening #Evaluation

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.
-- Robert H. Frank

#Economic Models #Roles #Evaluation

You should ask for a performance evaluation. Ask your boss, where do I stand? I need to know what I can do better and what I'm doing well.
-- Suzy Welch

#Boss #Needs #Evaluation