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Evaluation by others is not a guide for me. -- Bruce Lee
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. -- Winston Churchill
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. -- Vannevar Bush
The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are. -- Michael Jordan
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
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
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. -- Raymond Chandler
The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism. -- Thomas E. Mann
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time. -- Andy Hargreaves
Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point... -- Quint Studer
When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation. -- John Shimkus
Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents. -- Arne Duncan
In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Considering I'm a young president, I wouldn't like to make an evaluation of myself. It's not my job to do that. -- Dmitry Medvedev
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation. -- Viswanathan Anand
I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other. -- Gerald Asher
My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results. -- Andrew Mitchell
The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult. -- Barry Ritholtz
We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood. -- Billy Beane
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
The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation. -- Garry Kasparov
I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that. -- Ben Feldman
President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations. -- Juan Williams
When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day. -- Tom Rath
We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big. -- Austan Goolsbee
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
Bio Life Technical's strategy of providing technical due diligence by expert professors from core disciplines and world class experts working with interdisciplinary institutes, such as Imperial College's Institute of Biomedical Engineering, will enable a more thorough scientific evaluation of the technology. -- Chris Toumazou
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
The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation. -- Mary Hart
Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment. -- Ramez Naam
If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10, when I was first taken to a mental hospital for evaluation and then referred to a psychiatrist for treatment, tried in various ways to overcome my anxiety. -- Scott Stossel
We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions. -- Adolf Hitler
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative. -- Dale T. Mortensen
When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise. -- Richard Phillips
We should listen less to the opinions of those who either overtly promote or stubbornly reject complementary and alternative medicine without acceptable evidence. The many patients who use complementary and alternative medicine deserve better. Patients and healthcare providers need to know which forms are safe and effective. Its future should (and hopefully will) be determined by unbiased scientific evaluation. -- Edzard Ernst
Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first. -- Dale Archer
My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities. -- John Cassavetes
The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college. -- Daniel Kahneman
I want to be a free agent. I think everybody in the NBA dreams to be a free agent at least one time in their career. It's like you have an evaluation period. It's like if I'm in the gym and I have all the coaches, all the owners, all the GMs come into the gym and just evaluate everything I do. So yes, I want that experience. -- Carmelo Anthony
Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday. -- Peter Drucker
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
I have gone through the process of re-evaluating, giving a personal re-evaluation to everything that I ever believed and that I did believe while I was a, a member and a minister. -- Malcolm X
Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable. -- John Wooden
Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty
Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation. -- Alfie Kohn
Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are. -- Marianne Williamson
Watch,witness,observe your thoughts-without any judgement,without any condemnation or evaluation... -- Rajneesh
A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition. -- Eleanor Catton
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense. -- David Foster Wallace
Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school. -- Peter Breggin
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures -- Albert Bandura
When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others. -- Timothy Keller
We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities. -- Warren Buffett
The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art. -- Pablo Picasso
The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response. -- Edward Albee
That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight. -- Michael Eric Dyson
If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened. -- Robert M. Pirsig
It is not possible to make a certain evaluation...that cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'. -- Hardin B. Jones
Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals. -- Quentin L. Cook
The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation. -- Robert H. Frank
Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation. -- Michele Cassou
Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board. -- Carroll Smith
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A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation -- Albert Bandura
In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience -- Albert Bandura
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
It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to "results" we will quickly lose interest in prayer. -- Eugene H. Peterson
My top priority will be to secure maximum value for money in aid through greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results." -- Andrew Mitchell
You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation. -- Arthur Lydiard
The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete, -- Jacque Fresco
Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive. -- Paul Fry
More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality. -- Alfred Adler
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
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
Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90 percent of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly? -- Kurt Cobain
Every interaction in the marketplace produces some kind of evaluation or appraisal opportunity that can be conveyed to others by the person on the receiving end of the interaction. -- Jim Blasingame
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure. -- Marcel Proust
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
People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves. -- Warren Buffett
Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them. -- Stephen Covey
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
I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole. -- Brian Greene
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
The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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
When the locus of evaluation is seen as residing in the expert, it would appear that the long-range social implications are in the direction of the social control of the many by the few. -- Carl R. Rogers
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
It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely true and that's why we're not sending anybody to Iraq. -- Stephen Harper

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