The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them. — Seth Copy Share Image
One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day? — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“If you cannot find a method for assessing students that uses authentic texts, I would ask why that concept is worth teaching.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing. — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“when it comes to assessing a candidate’s common sense, vision, creativity, or decision-making abilities, school records are of limited value.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Political stability was at most a factor in assessing developing countries or Russia. It is now also an issue in Western democracies. — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
“In the book Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right, Using It Well (2004), Rick Stiggins et al. offer seven strategies… — Cris Tovani Copy Share Image
The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When a child is thriving, there is no reason to spend time assessing intelligences. But when a child is NOT thriving -… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it.… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and… — Robert L. Rosen Copy Share Image
Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford… — Dale E. Jones Copy Share Image
I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
We should not lay all past mistakes on Chairman Mao. So we must be very objective in assessing him. His contributions were… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the most important analytic tools when assessing an investment is an intellectually advantaged disparate view. This includes knowing more and… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
If there is genuine potential for growth, build capacity in advance of demand, as a strategy for creating demand. Hold the vision,… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate… — Ian Darke Copy Share Image
In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
There are gonna be elections coming up among our NATO allies that we have to pay attention to. I anticipate that this… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is… — Marshall Cook Copy Share Image
We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make… — David Simon Copy Share Image
In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
