Assessment famous quotes

Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.
-- Albert Ellis

#Positive Thinking #Assessment #Views

To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.
-- Amartya Sen

#Eye #Assessment #Justice

One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.
-- Amy Dickinson

#Women #Assessment #Needs

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.
-- Ann Veneman

#Country #Assessment #Numbers

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.
-- Anthony Giddens

#Assessment #Risk #Thesis

Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.
-- Bill Ackman

#Assessment #Needs #Errands

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.
-- Bill Nye

#Assessment #Law #Three

Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.
-- Carol Ann Tomlinson

#Mean #Assessment #Today

The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities.
-- Charlotte Beers

#Mistake #Assessment #Giving

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.
-- Cynthia Lewis

#Rocks #Assessment #Swim

Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.
-- Cynthia Lewis

#Assessment #Zippers

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
-- Dallas Willard

#Spiritual #Real #Assessment

My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.
-- Damien Fahey

#Real #Phones #Assessment

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
-- David Mamet

#Black And White #Government #Assessment

The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you're not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society? Enturdment?
-- David Wong

#Powerful #Loneliness #Assessment

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our precious experiences.
-- Dennis Kimbro

#Assessment #Perception

When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.
-- Edward Whitacre, Jr.

#Mean #Assessment #Years

By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.
-- Emanuel Lasker

#Assessment #Play #Trying

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
-- Ernest Gellner

#Philosophy #Assessment #Speak

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
-- Fernando Flores

#Assessment #Made

Hope is a stance, not an assessment.
-- Frances Moore Lappé

#Faith #Assessment #Stance

First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values.
-- Frank Sartor

#Running #Assessment #Land

Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.
-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom #Buddhism #Assessment

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Men #Assessment #Deceived

Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Assessment #Church #Engagement

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.
-- Ibn Khaldun

#Freedom #Yield #Assessment

As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.
-- Ibn Warraq

#Suicide #Assessment #White

One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
-- Idries Shah

#Thinking #Assessment #People

There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional. This is sheer intensity.
-- Jack Nicklaus

#Sports #Emotional #Assessment

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.
-- James Fallows

#Technology #Assessment #Oil

Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.
-- Jan Egeland

#Assessment #People #Relief

No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it.
-- Joe Biden

#Mean #Assessment #America

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
-- John Charles Polanyi

#Assessment #Quality #Economic

Well, what does "good" mean anyway...? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good," like "game," has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: "meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation.
-- John Searle

#Mean #Assessment #Games

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.
-- Jon Meacham

#Inspiration #Independent #Assessment

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.
-- Jonathan Raban

#Unique #Assessment #Self

One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.
-- Karen MacNeil

#Reading #Wine #Assessment

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class assessments of the soaring temperatures the world is facing, the devastating impacts of these rises and the ways in which we can try and avoid the worst effects of global warming. We now know climate change is real and the hand of humankind in this warming is becoming clearer and clearer.
-- Klaus Topfer

#Real #Impact #Assessment

I think it's safe to say that it's rather premature for anyone to make any initial assessment or analysis of Kim Jong-un, or have an accurate impression on Kim Jong-un.
-- Lee Myung-bak

#Thinking #Assessment #Analysis

The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking in published therapy programmes and are especially helpful...the pack provides very clear guidelines...overall it will be a very significant addition to speech and language therapy practice.
-- Linda Armstrong

#Assessment #Practice #Analysis

The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich."
-- Linda McQuaig

#Cutting #Media #Assessment

Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware at the time. To inhabit your own contentment is to be wholly present, with no orbiting satellite to take clinical readings of the state of the planet. Conventionally, you grow conscious of happiness at the very point that it begins to elude you. When not misused to talk yourself into something - when not a lie - the h-word is a classification applied in retrospect. It is a bracketing assessment, a label only decisively pasted onto an era once it is over.
-- Lionel Shriver

#Lying #Reading #Assessment

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.
-- LZ Granderson

#Assessment #Self #Blame

Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of “their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.
-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Assessment #Decision #Hazards

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
-- Marcus Aurelius

#Assessment #Flesh #Littles

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.
-- Margaret Spellings

#Assessment #Years #Understanding

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Brother #Compassion #Assessment

There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.
-- Mary Daly

#Thinking #Assessment #Imagination

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]
-- Mike Ferguson

#Assessment #Cynical #Events

Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one?
-- Milton Berle

#Assessment #Tests #Grades

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#Military #Assessment

When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study the universe just like me - how could they not? This naiveté is what tells me that my interest was more a calling than a rational comparative assessment about what to be when I grew up.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Kids #Assessment #Calling

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
-- Nelson Mandela

#Assessment #Years #People

Independence is a very subjective assessment.
-- P. Chidambaram

#Assessment #Independence

The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare the scientific assessments. Even worse, some of the wording in the science portions has been changed by policy makers after the scientists have approved the conclusions.
-- Peter Friedman

#Assessment #Political #Groups

I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'
-- Peter Higgs

#Exercise #Assessment #Giving

You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble.
-- Peter Stone

#Assessment #Laughing #Interesting

I’m accused of having no morality, which is a fair assessment, because my morality is whatever the system allows
-- Peter Woodcock

#Assessment #Morality #Accused

You might want to check with the IPCC Bureau. I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 [the upcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report] would be to delete all e-mails at the end of the process. Hard to do, as not everybody will remember it.
-- Phil Jones

#Assessment #Over You #Would Be

The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.
-- Rajendra K. Pachauri

#Assessment #Research #Literature

It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.
-- Raymond Geuss

#Mean #Assessment #Europe

A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
-- Robert Genn

#Assessment #Painting #Intrinsic Value

Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a bigger boat. Awestruck, they all view the full-sized, massive shark circling the boat. Quint estimates it is 25 feet long: Three tons of him.
-- Roy Scheider

#Believe #Assessment #Views

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
-- Ryszard Kapuscinski

#Past #Assessment #Self

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.
-- Ryszard Kapuscinski

#Past #Government #Assessment

When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points.
-- Sam Levenson

#Mother #Home #Assessment

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.
-- Scott Jurek

#Assessment #Surrender #Rational

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.
-- Sean Paul

#Kids #Thinking #Assessment

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.
-- Sheena Iyengar

#Art #Assessment #Appreciate

The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial fieldwork experiences and their lives. Illustrating the dense interweaving of the personal and the professional that is the hallmark of anthropology as a vocation, these essays are at once affectively deep reflections, and clear-eyed assessments, of lives often lived 'between here and there.' Alma Gottlieb's idea to stimulate these articles and bring together this collection was inspired.
-- Sherry Ortner

#Powerful #Reflection #Assessment

What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.
-- Stanley Fish

#Writing #Assessment #World

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the scientific reports. It omits much contrary evidence. In several cases, it even disagrees with the reports on which it is based.
-- Steven F. Hayward

#Assessment #Political #Climate

The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise abatement and proper disposal of shot, shells and things.
-- Steven Hall

#Issues #Assessment #Giving

The evidence that at least one extraterrestrial civilization has visited Earth is extensive both in scope and detail. In its totality it comprises a body of evidence which at the very least supports the general assessment that extraterrestrial life has been detected, and that a vigorous program of research and serious diplomatic initiatives is warranted.
-- Steven M. Greer

#Assessment #Civilization #Support

Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts.
-- Steven Van Zandt

#Light #Assessment #Effort

The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result.
-- Susan Mann

#Teacher #Assessment #Skills

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Assessment #May #Way

These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge.  The algorithmic assessment of information, then, represents a particular knowledge logic, one built on specific presumptions about what knowledge is and how one should identify its most relevant components.  That we are now turning to algorithms to identify what we need to know is as momentous as having relied on credentialed experts, the scientific method, common sense, or the word of God.
-- Tarleton Gillespie

#Assessment #Common Sense #Needs

My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR, but for my money, King is the greatest American we have ever produced. His only weapon was love. He transforms a nation, transforms the world with one weapon and that of course being again the weapon of love. So that for me, King is the quintessential example of everything that I could ever want to be in my lifetime.
-- Tavis Smiley

#Kings #Assessment #Drs

Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have to prove the assessment with very strong moves and if you don't find all of these strong moves you may lose very quickly. For a computer this is not a problem, but for humans it is not so easy.
-- Vassily Ivanchuk

#Strong #Moving #Assessment

By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.
-- Vin Suprynowicz

#Real #Educational #Assessment

I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.
-- Virginia Satir

#Hurt #Assessment #People

You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.
-- William Stafford

#Writing #Differences #Assessment

Our objective is to begin a national conversation to better support individuals and families living with ASD in Canada. The Summit will review the recent National Needs Assessment Survey and provide leaders with a better understanding of ASD surveillance across the country. We are pleased that Minister Bergen will be part of this important discussion.
-- Cynthia Carroll

#Country #Assessment #Support

The success of an archery shot may bring food to the hunter's starving family, or may constitute a horrible murder. But these outcomes are irrelevant to the assessment of that shot as a hunter-archery shot, as an attempt to hit prey without running excessive risk of failure.
-- Ernest Sosa

#Running #Assessment #Archery

In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By contrast, in a hunt, shots vary in quality according to how well selected they may be.
-- Ernest Sosa

#Archer #Assessment #Choices

If the agent aims to make the attempt if and only if it would be apt, then a distinctive element of risk assessment becomes relevant: How probably would the agent succeed in attempting that fuller end?
-- Ernest Sosa

#Ifs And #Assessment #Risk

Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.
-- Ernest Sosa

#Memories #Assessment #Risk

Few generals were as brilliant as Robert E. Lee and few battles as titanic -- and puzzling -- as Gettysburg. Why did Lee fail? In Lost Triumph, Tom Carhart offers a bold and provocative new assessment. Agree or disagree, it is sure to stimulate debate among even the most seasoned Civil War buffs.
-- Jay Winik

#War #Assessment #Battle

Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.
-- L. Todd Rose

#Assessment #People #Talent

I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do it myself. So I instituted a suit against the city of Baltimore demanding that the city assessor be specifically ordered to assess the Church for its vast property holdings in the city, and that the city tax collector then be instructed to collect the taxes once the assessment has been made.
-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#Assessment #Cities #Church

People don't actually, a lot of times, know the game behind the game. If people think that they do, it's a little bit of a naïve assessment of how the [writing] industry works.
-- Mandy Stadtmiller

#Writing #Thinking #Assessment

Conscience is all about using discernment, discrimination and assessment, rather than looking to the rather crude form of advice from the judge that's mostly attacking our sense of worth or value, instead of giving us helpful information.
-- Mark Coleman

#Assessment #Giving #Judging

My label in Toronto was Stand Pat and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
-- Pat Gillick

#Thinking #Assessment #Labels

The only uncertainty surrounding the decision is the wording of the accompanying statement and, in particular, whether the assessment that 'some further policy firming may be needed to keep the risks ... roughly in balance' will be dropped.
-- Paul Ashworth

#Assessment #Decision #Risk

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.
-- Peggy Phelan

#Witty #Art #Assessment

Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas.
-- Rachel Holmes

#Father #Book #Assessment

My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?
-- Ricardo Sanchez

#Assessment #Years #America

I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?
-- Adam Phillips

#Assessment #Problem #Being True

It is not for us to give an assessment to what happened, but in our opinion the reputation of British science, the reputation of the British government, and the reputation of the title 'Sir' has sustained heavy damage.
-- Andrey Illarionov

#Government #Assessment #Giving