Reassess Quotes

#1. When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.

Vesta Williams

#2. Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. When our children know more about teen pop idols than they do about Jesus Christ, isn't it time for us to reassess the place and priority our faith has in our lives?

Matthew Kelly

#4. Our lives are scattered throughout with periods of unbelonging; in childhood, of course, and adolescence; but in adulthood too, when sudden loss (or gain) forces us to reassess things we believe immutable.

Clive Barker

#5. When the girl you're casually screwing and dating starts to look like she was literally sent from Heaven, you better reassess your priorities before someone gets hurt. Especially when she speaks like the spawn of Satan.

Andrea Randall

#6. Speed bumps in relationships are temporary rises in the road that signal you to slow down, step back, and reassess the situation.

Nicole Huggins

#7. The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess what you felt about people or issues or places, and it forces you to live in the present.

Gloria Steinem

#8. Never force something, Drew. A bolt, a pass, a game, whatever." His dark brown eyes held mine. "Force it and you'll lose. Patience and persistence is how you win in life. Take your time, look for the solution, and if it doesn't come to you, fall back, reassess, and try again.

Kristen Callihan

#9. The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

Tariq Ramadan

#10. People who are committed to mastery don't freak out (as much) when they hit an obstacle. They reassess and then get going again, thinking they can get better.

Henry Cloud

#11. Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Raymond E. Feist

#12. Before you choose whom to love, take a look at yourself, choose your own word, think about how and reassess your time when you have given life to love, Know your ready or not and make sure you are not there to hurt making regrets on your door and paint the word I wish on your window.

Auliq Ice

#13. When something scary like this happens, it acts like a wake-up call, you know? It makes us reassess what's important in life. Our family. Our friends. The people we love.

R.J. Palacio

#14. Immigration was a huge force in changing my outlook. I moved to America 30 years ago. I had to reassess my beliefs, especially about women's roles.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#15. When you begin a new endeavor you need to reassess your life.

Sunday Adelaja

#16. When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother's, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reassess both our relationship as well as the sources of my knowing.

Audre Lorde

#17. Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

Meghan O'Rourke

#18. I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

Lee Myung-bak

#19. I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

Ryan Gosling

#20. I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.

Orlando Bloom

#21. I remember that through all chaos or problems, there is a solution. So I separate myself for just a moment, whether that means zoning everyone out or taking a little walk to get some fresh air. I take this time to clear my head, breathe and reassess the problem and how I'm feeling.

Allison Holker

#22. We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that ... sometimes every week.

Melinda Gates

#23. I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.

T.D. Jakes

#24. When you have a life milestone happen, it's good to step back and reassess the things you thought you knew about yourself.

Emily Yoffe

#25. Sometimes you want something so badly, you get caught up; you lose yourself in that hunger. But then, once it is gone, you have a chance to reassess -to decide what it is you're truly after. Half of the time, it's not what you originally thought it would be.

Jenna Moreci

#26. As it's often been said, the rest of your life is the best of your life. I'm reaching for your hand now to help you reassess your attitude on living and jump into the happiest, healthiest, most productive years you will ever have.

Jack LaLanne

#27. As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.

Benjamin Zander

#28. For however one may come in later years to reassess one's achievements, it is always a consolation to know that one's life has contained a moment or two or real satisfaction

Kazuo Ishiguro

#29. JJ informed me, when he dropped them off, that they are French bulldogs, which has led med to reassess my opinion of the French. They may know a lot about making wine and fries, but they don't know jacques-merde about making dogs.

Melissa DeCarlo

#30. It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

Peter Davison

#31. Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

Taylor Wilson

#32. I've ultimately decided that I will not play this NBA season. I'm going to take the remainder of this season, as well as the upcoming off-season, to reassess my situation, spend time with my family and determine if I will play in the 2015-16 season.

Ray Allen

#33. Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.

Ethan Zuckerman

#34. Leaders must regularly reassess what's working as a result of the changes, what's not working, what still needs attention, and how people are responding to the changes. The vision doesn't end with implementation; it ends with saturation and acceptance.

April Diaz

#35. My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.

George Clooney

#36. Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

Andrea Riseborough

#37. If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?

David Whyte