Quotes about Assessment

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. If the problem is something in your own character, who's stopping you from setting your mind straight? And if it's that you're not doing something you think you should be, why not just do it? —But there are insuperable obstacles. Then it's not a problem. The cause of your inaction lies outside you.

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

I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manners, or literature, or politics, or religion, or any other matter that is projected into the field of our notice and interest, is a most rare thing -- if it has indeed ever existed.

Don't judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.