Assessing Quotes

• Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God’s holiness and our sinfulness.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Humility, Light, Holiness

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.17, Multnomah

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• Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

  Brian Greene

  Wrestling, Dark, Would Be

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.5, Vintage

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• Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.

  Dale E. Jones

  Risk, Management, Transparency

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• The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

  Nelson Algren

  Work, Men, Livelihood

  "Nelson Algren, The Art of Fiction No. 11". Interview with Alston Anderson, Terry Southern, www.theparisreview.org. 1955.

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• One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy’s information, political postures—dozens, literally dozens of factors.

  Joe Haldeman

  Military, War, Men

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• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  Imre Lakatos

  Lying, Numbers, Judging

  "Peirce's Theory of Inquiry and Beyond" by Thora Margareta Bertilsson, (p. 41), 2009.

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• A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.

  Marshall Cook

  Leadership, Jobs, Mistake

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• Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Japan, Years, Long

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• The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.

  Charlotte Beers

  Men, Gauges, Fortitude

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• Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?

  Stewart Brand

  Block, House, Greek

  "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto". Book by Stewart Brand, 2009.

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• The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

  Joichi Ito

  Risk, Cost, Failing

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• Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Thinking, Government, Self

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.13, Crux Publishing Ltd

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• The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

  Warren Buffett

  Keys, Investing, Durability

  Warren Buffett's remarks at Herb Allen's Sun Valley in Idaho Retreat, July 1999.

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• Claire found herself staring at his feet, which were in bunny slippers. Myrnin looked down. "What?" he asked. "They're quite comfortable." He lifted on to look at it, and the ears wobbled in the air. "Of course they are," she said. Just when she thought Myrnin was getting his mental act together, he'd do something like that. Or maybe he was just messing with her. He liked to do that, and his dark eyes were fixed on her now, assessing just how weirded-out she was. Which, on the grade scale of zero to Myrnin, wasn't much.

  Rachel Caine

  Zero, Eye, Dark

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.15, Penguin

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• The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again

  Jennifer Estep

  Men, Two, Weakness

  Jennifer Estep (2010). “Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Hey Sydney," she said, giving me a small, crooked smile as she entered the room. Her flashing, dark eyes were friendly, but they were also assessing everything in the room, much as Eddie's gaze was. It was a guardian thing. Rose was about my height and dressed very casually in jeans and a red tank top. But, as always, there was something as exotic and dangerous about her beauty that made her stand out from everyone else. She was like a tropical flower in this dark, stuffy room. One that could kill you.

  Richelle Mead

  Flower, Eye, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.38, Penguin

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• The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.

  Bonnie Friedman

  Work, Thinking, Envy

  Bonnie Friedman (2014). “Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• 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 always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.

  Sue Grafton

  Reality, Law Enforcement, Cop

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.83, Macmillan

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• It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

  Aldous Huxley

  Wine, Knives, Apples

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• We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Disappointment, Secret, Might

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• Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that is likely to bring the most evolutionary results. If there is only one choice, take it. If there are no obvious choices, relax and accept the fact that for now, you cannot do anything.

  David Simon

  Mean, Acceptance, Choices

  David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.56, Health Communications, Inc.

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• In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression of the entire twentieth century, the century of Hitler and Stalin. How much would we give to prevent those horrors? Yet how little are we doing to prevent today's even larger toll and all the misery that it involves? I believe that if you read this book to the end, and look honestly and carefully at our situation, assessing both the facts and the ethical arguments, you will agree that we must act.

  Peter Singer

  War, Believe, Book

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• We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.

  Amanda Ripley

  Kids, Risk, Everyday

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• Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the risk of default. ... The idea that politicians can assess risks better than people who have spent their whole careers assessing risks should have been so obviously absurd that no one would take it seriously.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Should Have, Careers

  "Bailout Politics" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 30, 2008.

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• Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help organizations improve their risk-management practices...We are also considering the need for additional or revised supervisory guidance regarding various aspects of risk management, including further emphasis on the need for an enterprise-wide perspective when assessing risk.

  Ben Bernanke

  Strong, Practice, Organization

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