Evaluation Criteria Quotes

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

Progress is made where progress is measured.

In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that's when the profession goes into decline.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

Failed weapons tests are necessary components of the weapons development process.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history.

I judge a woman and a horse by the same criteria: legs, head and rear end.

You chose us. Now we have to choose you.

We don’t have any metrics on that.

At the end of the day, is Singapore society better or worse off? That's the test.

Practically, systemic thinking can be used to identify problems, analyze their boundaries, design strategies and policy interventions, forecast and measure their expected impacts, implement them, and monitor and evaluate their successes and failures.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

It's a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.

You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game.

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

A 'competence' that has no defined borders cannot be called a true competence.

Did I do all right?

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 principle that needs to be used to guide the spending is, 'How successful is the program?'