#evaluation

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#conflicting #evaluation #genius #hazardous #information

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#evaluation #eyes #his #how #i

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#committee #diving #enter #essentially #evaluation

Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; (...) ↗

— Tracie McMillan

#food #systemic-devaluation-of-labour #food

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#infatuation #love

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

#calm #cannot #evaluation #fear #mitigated

There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation. ↗

— Mary Hart

#because #been #break #cases #come

In (hyper-loyal) cultures, loyalty is so highly prized that it covers a multitude of leadership sins. I’ve seen numerous bad leaders cover their ineptitude by stressing the importance of loyalty over competence. They teach that loyalty is more important than excellence and they use that idea to distract the team from their own inability to perform. ↗

— Phil Cooke

#loyalty #openness #leadership

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critic #critical #evaluation #good #maintaining

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#been #data #death #describing #evaluation