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The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.
Anytime emotions are involved, you cannot come up with an impartial and objective assessment of any given problem.
The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment.
Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.
True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.
If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.
One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.
I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.
The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.
The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.
The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.
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.
I definitely try not to get too caught up in putting too much of a gender or age assessment on everything - I've just got to get on with it.
Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.
When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points.
It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.
Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
Governments and civil society must step up to ensure inclusivity in the commissioning, design, delivery, and assessment of vital public services.
Estimation, assessment, looking back, retrospecting things - those are intellectual concepts, and they're always so subject to shifts in the wind.
While technology and assessment can help complement the important work of our teachers, I worry that we are spending too much of our time testing.
You want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution which is newer than cellphones or the Internet?
Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.
It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.
So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.
[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.
NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.
The likeability and popularity of 'Duck Dynasty's' Phil Robertson stem from his quick wit and honest assessment of situations that arise in reality television.
If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.
The intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem.
At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'
I think it's safe to say that it's rather premature for anyone to make any initial assessment or analysis of Kim Jong-un, or have an accurate impression on Kim Jong-un.
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.
You won't get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won't get a reasoned account of the joys of being 'linked' from somebody who's already 'in.'
A court's assessment of an agency's compliance with statutory limits does not depend on whether the agency's policy is good or whether the agency's intentions are laudatory.
Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
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.
When the assessment of goalkeepers is made by people who have never actually stood there in a game and experienced it, then it's hard to take it without a large pinch of salt.
Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are.
Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.