Quotes about Evaluation

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

Remember Bacon's recommendation to the reader: "Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Like most ministers, Peter was not the best judge of his own sermons. Almost invariably when he thought he had written one of his best, the rest of us did not rate it so highly. And, when on Saturday night he was bemoaning a terrible sermon, he could be pretty sure his congregation would think it terrific. How other people rated his sermons was a constant source of astonishment to him. That's what keeps me humble, he often said.

Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now