Assessment Quotes

• I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

  Nelson Mandela

  Years, People, Political

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Struggle, Winning

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.123, Shambhala Publications

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• Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Mean, Today, Tomorrow

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• Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

  Alfie Kohn

  Expectations, Students, Should

  Alfie Kohn (2000). “The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "tougher Standards"”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Values

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• I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps. Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Teacher, Religious

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.69, Penguin

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• Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

  Eric Zorn

  Funny, New Year, Honesty

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• I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

  Sean Paul

  Kids, Thinking, Should Have

  "Reasoning with Sean Paul". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. October 01, 2002.

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• Conscience is all about using discernment, discrimination and assessment, rather than looking to the rather crude form of advice from the judge that's mostly attacking our sense of worth or value, instead of giving us helpful information.

  Mark Coleman

  Giving, Judging, Advice

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one?

  Milton Berle

  Tests, Grades, Knows

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• Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

  Scott Jurek

  Surrender, Rational

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

  James A. Forbes

  Knowledge, Heart, People

  "Why Blacks Know Race Is a Factor" by Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

  Jon Meacham

  Inspiration, Independent, Intellectual

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• When I decide who to vote for as President, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world. An important component of my answer involves my assessment of the candidate's willingness and ability to protect Israel's security, since I strongly believe that a strong Israel serves the interests of the United States and of world peace.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Strong, Believe, Israel

  "No 'Buyer’s Remorse' for Voting for Obama" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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• When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Mean, Years, Boss

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• I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'

  Peter Higgs

  Exercise, Giving, Research

  "Peter Higgs interview: 'I have this kind of underlying incompetence'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.

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• I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

  Fernando Flores

  Made, My Own

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• I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.

  Vladimir Putin

  "Vladimir Putin: Pussy Riot Deserved Harsh Jail Sentence" by Michael Stott, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2012.

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• ...the most important things we need to manage can't be measured.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Teaching, Important, Needs

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• Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.

  Albert Ellis

  Positive Thinking, Views, Brain

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• 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.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach. Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Teaching, Curves, Facts

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Self

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Yield, Behavior

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