Quotes About Appraisal

It's very wrong to take less money than you're worth.

Nevertheless, with respect to cost development, there is a striking similarity between these and other major projects: there is a tendency towards a significant underestimation of costs during project appraisal. This is also the conclusion we draw when we review data from a large number of major transport infrastructure projects, and from other types of project as well.

The value of a thing always depends upon your point of view.

Never value the valueless. The trick is to know how to recognize it.

The system has little capacity for self-criticism; it appraises others, not itself. It didn't even allow itself to hear the full story behind the actions it was judging, and it certainly didn't recognize that the legal system's own shortcomings were a significant contributing factor in the tragedy.

knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

I charge more for prophecy," Offa said, "on the grounds that what is worthless must be made expensive.

Colonel L., in whose eyes I was a first-rate Riot Acter or, worse, an intellectual—in his phrase, "someone who reads books"—the most damning appraisal that could be made of a junior lieutenant.

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May we all be judged by strangers!

learning audit – on what could be done more, what could be done less, and what is satisfactory.

So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

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

That's what scares me, Gideon. You don't know what you're worth." "Actually, I do. Twelve bill—" "Shut up.

I determined my significance by their perspective of me.

Everybody evaluates. We critics are just trained to talk about it.

Llarimar raised an eyebrow. The value in something relates to how it is treated, Your Grace. If you see these items as junk, then they are, regardless of what someone else would pay for them.

The little boy put his finger down but kept an I-am-sizing-you-up look on his little face.

Individuals who can perform under pressure appraise the criticism as information that can help them. In

He comes to loos at one's daughter as if she were a suite of apartments; he tries the door-handles and looks out of the windows, raps on the walls and almost thinks he'll take the place. Will you be so good as to draw up a lease? Then, on the whole, he decides that the rooms are too small; he doesn't think he could live on a third floor; he must look out for a piano nobile. And he does away after having got a month's lodging in the poor little apartment for nothing.

He comes and looks at one's daughter as if she were a suite of apartments; he tries the door-handles and looks out of the windows, raps on the walls and almost thinks he'll take the place. Will you be so good as to draw up a lease? Then, on the whole, he decides that the rooms are too small; he doesn't think he could live on a third floor; he must look out for a piano nobile. And he does away after having got a month's lodging in the poor little apartment for nothing.

Her eyes] had taken hold of him straightaway, measuring him up and down as if they knew how; as if he were human material they had already in some sort handled.

Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.

To a New Yorker, a 1948 Indians World Series baseball signed by the whole team might be worth only $200 to $300, but to a Clevelander like myself, it might be, like, $1,000 to $2,000.