Assessment Quotes

Assessment Quote of the day

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

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.

Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

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.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

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

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

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

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.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

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.

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.

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

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.

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.

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

Hope is a stance, not an assessment.

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

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

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.

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

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

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.

Look at the footprints you've made.

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

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.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

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.

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.