Appraise Quotes

#1. As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

Emily Greene Balch

#2. Morrell turned his head upward as if to appraise the azure, featureless sky and nodded, apparently approving of God's use of negative space.

Steve Toltz

#3. If we cannot fully understand the acts of other people, until we know what they think they know, then in order to do justice we have to appraise not only the information which has been at their disposal, but the minds though which they have filtered it.

Walter Lippmann

#4. Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

Bobby Jones

#6. What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

Leonard Peikoff

#7. I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#8. Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

Sun Tzu

#9. ... The political leader must constantly appraise and reappraise the means through which 'he can hope to do justice to the responsibility that power imposes upon him' while at the same time pursuing political values with conviction.

Nicholas Gane

#10. The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

John Dewey

#11. A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

Stanley Smith Stevens

#12. Given that the limbic area shapes how we appraise the meaning of events, knowing the hand model and seeing the limbic area's distinct location from the higher areas of the cortex can help us realize that sometimes a "feeling" is indeed not a fact.

Daniel J. Siegel

#13. It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

#14. Most headlines are set too big to be legible in the magazines or newspaper. Never approve a layout until you have seen it pasted into the magazine or newspaper for which it was destined. If you pin up the layouts on a bulletin board and appraise them from fifteen feet, you will produce posters.

David Ogilvy

#15. The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.

Felix Adler

#16. groupthink occurs when people "are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group," and their "strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action.

Adam M. Grant

#17. There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

Ezra Pound

#18. Than smoke and mist who better could appraise
The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

Robert Frost

#19. In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

Dante Alighieri

#20. He feared, in his secret heart, that one day in company the baby would sit up and speak; that it would engage his eyes, appraise him, and say, 'You prick.

Hilary Mantel

#21. I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.

Janine Turner

#22. When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Marianne Moore

#23. Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge, may appraise them conveniently.

Walter J. Phillips

#24. The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.

Joel Henry Hildebrand

#25. I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh ... I can't stand it!

Sophia Bush

#26. Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

Learned Hand

#27. Been there, done that
Sold crack, got jacked
Got shot, came back
Jumped on Dre's back!

Jayceon Terrell Taylor

#28. As things grew for me I felt like I was losing myself and wanted to stay true to myself as well. I didn't want to lose any connection I had with the audience. I felt small on a big stage and I felt like I was peaking generically to an audience.

Jason Mraz

#29. In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

Rei Kawakubo

#30. Frankly, with HBO and Showtime and cable shows, the DVD box sets and all, you can have a product that doesn't make you feel like as soon as it's projected, it's thrown away. It's really a piece of art.

Louis Leterrier

#31. Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

Pierre Bonnard

#32. The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

Ernest Holmes

#33. My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.

Bob Hope

#34. I managed to find a spot where we had the wind from astern, a steep head sea on our starboard quarter and the tide race through the narrows at the same time. A few hours of that and our fierce horse soldiers were like little lambs - sick little lambs.

John Flanagan

#35. You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think ... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.

Harold Simmons

#36. I still don't look like what I think I look like.

Molly Parker