Quotes by Assessment I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to? Adam Phillips being-true assessment problem [T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness. Alain de Botton assessment differences way Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities Albert Bandura assessment yield self Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible. Albert Ellis assessment positive-thinking views A mighty maze! But not without a plan. Alexander Pope assessment mazes plans Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students. Alfie Kohn assessment students expectations To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism. Amartya Sen assessment eye justice NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition. Ambrose Bierce assessment politics political One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions. Amy Dickinson assessment women needs It is not for us to give an assessment to what happened, but in our opinion the reputation of British science, the reputation of the British government, and the reputation of the title 'Sir' has sustained heavy damage. Andrey Illarionov assessment government giving On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure. Andy Hargreaves assessment learning leadership 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 small-numbers assessment country I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief. Ansel Adams assessment photography believe The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks. Anthony Giddens thesis assessment risk 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 assessment sarcastic thinking I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria. Barack Obama assessment regret people My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website. Benedict Cumberbatch nsa assessment names The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach. Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach. Benjamin Bloom assessment curves teaching When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, "What have I done? How did I do it? Where'd I mess up? Where did I do well?" When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, "It was really good." I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it! Bette Midler assessment party land Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’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 errands assessment needs 12345678910»
