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  • Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there is a 50% chance that your house would burn down in the next few years unless you replace all the wiring. The job will cost $20,000... so you get an independent assessment. The next engineer agrees with the first warning. You can either continue to shop for additional evaluations until you find the one engineer in 1,000 that is willing to give you the answer you want, "Your family is not in danger" or you can change the wiring.

    Jobs   Home   Independent  
  • Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

    Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City
  • When I moved into one of the worst inner-cities in America to do missionary work I had to do risk assessment, and It was a risk. My family could have been in danger, house could get robbed at any minute but I count it all as nothing compared to knowing Jesus it was all worth it at the end of the day.

    Source: thegospelguru.com
  • Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

    Mean   Assessment   Today  
  • 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.

  • Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

    Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

  • For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

    Assessment   Lord   Knows  
  • Speed, quality, price. Pick any two.

  • Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.

    Peace   War   Mean  
  • Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

  • [The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even mentioning that Ecuador made a formal assessment through its formal processes and found that yes, I am subject to persecution by the United States.

    Source: www.zerohedge.com
  • I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

    Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

  • At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns report, stating that it clearly demonstrated that the practice of hunting wild animals with dogs caused cruelty. The report did not state that.

    Dog   Hunting   Animal  
  • According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?

    Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.113, Shambhala Publications
  • You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing you have no accurate assessment - you can't make an accurate assessment of where you fit and why. I consider our moving frontier in space as the anecdote to that downward trend.

    Source: blog.sfgate.com
  • I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

    "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.
  • General notions are generally wrong.

    Letter to her husband Edward Wortley Montagu, 28 March 1710, in Robert Halsband (ed.) 'The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' vol. 1 (1965) p. 24
  • My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.

    Funny   Real   Technology  
    Twitter post from Jun 13, 2012
  • Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is.

  • Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

  • External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

    Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.110, Modern Library
  • The only uncertainty surrounding the decision is the wording of the accompanying statement and, in particular, whether the assessment that 'some further policy firming may be needed to keep the risks ... roughly in balance' will be dropped.

  • What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.

    "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.
  • My label in Toronto was Stand Pat and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  • Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.

    Witty   Art   Assessment  
  • At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

  • And it was kind of funny to see all these professional fighters unwilling to get within a mile of the female. Then again, if you wanted to survive doing the work they did, accurate risk assessment was something you developed early -- and even Qhuinn, who was the object of the protective instinct the Chosen was rocking, wouldn't have dared touch her.

    J.R. Ward (2013). “Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.249, Penguin
  • The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class assessments of the soaring temperatures the world is facing, the devastating impacts of these rises and the ways in which we can try and avoid the worst effects of global warming. We now know climate change is real and the hand of humankind in this warming is becoming clearer and clearer.

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