Accurate Assessment Quotes

To govern well, one must see things as they are.

Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

You can't improve if you don't know what the real situation is.

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

Do not speculate; get data and calculate.

You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing you have no accurate assessment - you can't make an accurate assessment of where you fit and why. I consider our moving frontier in space as the anecdote to that downward trend.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.

I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.

Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.