Quotes by Assessment Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer. Cynthia Lewis assessmentrocksswim It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed. Cynthia Lewis assessmentswingsreality If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work. Dallas Willard assessmentrealspiritual I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away. Daniel Handler assessmenteditorsbook The way that the stories go in the Snicket books is just the way stories naturally go to me. They're full of misery, and yet the misery ends up being slightly hilarious. And in terms of the warnings on the back of the books, that really started as an honest assessment of their marketability. Daniel Handler assessmentstoriesbook Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning. Dave Carter assessmentteachingteacher True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before. David Gerrold assessmentintelligenceexpression The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was. David McCord assessmentteachingdoe The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law. David Mamet assessmentblack-and-whitegovernment I did a week-long assessment in 2005 at (then Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld's request. Following our return, I told him that Afghanistan was going to be the longest campaign of what we then termed "the long war." David Petraeus assessmentwarlong The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you're not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society? Enturdment? David Wong assessmentpowerfulloneliness So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party". Blows were dealt at leading cadres at all levels who had made contributions to the revolution and had practical experience, including Comrade Liu Shaoqi. Deng Xiaoping assessmentpartyblow We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our precious experiences. Dennis Kimbro assessmentperception Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman lengthassessmentjust-live It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, Edward de Bono assessmentassumptionhistorical When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way. Edward Whitacre, Jr. assessmentmeanyears To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . . Edward Gibbon assessmentproudsoldier By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values. Emanuel Lasker assessmentplaytrying Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak. Ernest Gellner assessmentspeakphilosophy The success of an archery shot may bring food to the hunter's starving family, or may constitute a horrible murder. But these outcomes are irrelevant to the assessment of that shot as a hunter-archery shot, as an attempt to hit prey without running excessive risk of failure. Ernest Sosa archeryassessmentrunning«12345678910»
