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Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students. -- Alfie Kohn
I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps. Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Do not form your judgment about our military doctrine from the assessments given by NATO representatives. -- Sergei Lavrov
Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are. -- Eula Biss
Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge. -- Richard Leakey
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
Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender. -- Ronald Kessler
Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city. -- Michael Chertoff
I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations. -- Hillary Clinton
The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters. -- Rick Atkinson
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed. -- Martin Filler
Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders. -- Scott Jurek
A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments. -- Robert Genn
The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature. -- Rajendra K. Pachauri
Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need. -- Jan Egeland
Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept. -- L. Todd Rose
Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle. -- Sun Tzu
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. -- Barack Obama
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
Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a foolâ??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

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