Evaluating Others Quotes

#1. So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

Warren Buffett

#2. We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

Robert Charles Wilson

#3. You are never too busy to make time for what you love. It's just a matter of prioritizing - evaluating how you spend your days and dedicating time for what you value. If something is really important to you, you will find a way to fit it into your life.

Jessica N. Turner

#4. I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.

Mia Hamm

#5. To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the rest of you.

Lee Child

#6. Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life ... within a given age in a given society ... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal ... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. ...we stop respecting and evaluating people based on what we think they should accomplish, and start respecting them for who they are and holding them accountable for what they're actually doing.

Brene Brown

#8. Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Anton Chekhov

#9. Historians evaluating George W. Bush's first term will focus on foreign policy and, most of all, 9/11. I think they will criticize him for his early reaction, for not returning at once to Washington, D.C.

Robert Dallek

#10. If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

Ronald Fisher

#11. I'm not sure that I care for the idea of strangers examining my daily habits and folkways, studying my language, inspecting my costume, questioning me about my religion, classifying my artifacts, investigating my sexual rites and evaluating my chances for cultural survival. So I lived alone.

Edward Abbey

#12. The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.

John Allen Paulos

#14. Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

Emily Blunt

#15. Never blame a text from the Bible for your behavior. It's irresponsible. Anybody who says X, Y, and Z is in the bible - it's as if one says, 'I have no role in evaluating this.

Steven Greenberg

#16. Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

Clint Eastwood

#17. Naive people always trying to blame others for their constant heartbreak & failed relationships instead of looking in the mirror & re-evaluating themselves. It's YOU that needs to change.

David Reeves

#18. Clearly separate the stage of generating ideas and evaluating ideas.

Pauline Tonhauser

#19. Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.

Carl Safina

#20. Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun?

Charles Lindbergh

#21. They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#22. 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

#23. We are in such a habit of evaluating God and His work in us by what we feel that it is very likely that on some occasions we will be discouraged because we do not feel any special blessing. Above everything, when you wait on God, you must do so in the spirit of hope.

Andrew Murray

#24. Sure. But if the book sucks, we're re-evaluating the friendship.

Colleen Hoover

#25. When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The other is whether the model is consistent with the 'real world.'

Kenneth A. Bollen

#26. People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are so successful.

Joel Spolsky

#27. Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.

Frederick Lenz

#28. Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.

Richard Gere

#29. Evaluating people is quite difficult. In order to properly evaluate a man, we should have a chance to observe his behavior when he has nothing, and when he has everything.

Eraldo Banovac

#30. Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.

Emily Oster

#31. Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired.

Noam Chomsky

#32. The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

Emily Oster

#33. Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

Robert Teeter

#34. Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating.

Pushpa Rana