evaluation quotes

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

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

The spread of online information isn’t just good for charities. It’s also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

I don’t feel I’ve had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.