Quotes About Appraisal

It's hard to judge literary merit.

Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.

two sharp brown eyes surveyed the room like drive-by shooters.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

One white foot - buy him: Two white feet - try him; Three white feet - look well about him; Four white feet - go without him.

Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

The only step that makes the valuable to become valueless is the negative side of your eyes that you use to see it.

The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified.

one cannot judge a performance in any given field (war, politics, medicine, investments) by the results, but by the costs of the alternative (i.e., if history played out in a different way).

Human beings are afflicted by a need to judge.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.

You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.

But in the time-honored manner of most human males, he allowed his eyeballs to swivel her way so that he could check her out, then turned his head so that he could check her out better.

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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

There are also those who, like the author, ensconce themselves on a thunderous crag of omniscience and, with protestations of humility which are either unconvincing or totally absent, assume the obligation of appraisal, commendation, derogation or denunciation of their contemporaries. Still, by and large it is an easier job than digging a ditch.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.