Quotes About Appraisal

Your eye is the only way you can judge things.

Some things are just straw, and some things are gold, and sometimes you just have to know which is which.

Finally turning his head, he regarded me appraisingly, with contempt so thick that I expected to hear it drizzle to the floor with a spattering sound.

He turns to consider them with disapproval.

Is it worth something?" "At retail, from a collector, it would bring forty thousand dollars, maybe a few thousand less.

At the end of every season, I try to assess what I did well and what I didn't do well.

I don't know anything about antiques. I do buy them now, but I have a little knowledge, and great enthusiasm.

The problem is, you're looking for faults from the first moment you meet a man." "I hate to disillusion you, but when they're as obvious as the San Andreas, they're not that hard to spot.

I've realized that anyone can be a critic but it takes a remarkable person to offer praise.

O valor não é intrínseco. Não está nas coisas e nas condições, mas no sujeito que as avalia.

If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

She was too old to be young and other women her age had been crossed off the list of women suitable for appraisal

A whole lot of good my IQ came when it came to judging his character.

Curiosity Is a Snap Judgment

it didn't matter what the books said, what the experts said, what similar items at Christie's had recently gone for. An object—any object—was worth whatever you could get somebody to pay for it.

He flings pros into the air like skeet, and one by one he shatters them with cons.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

There isn't one move you're gonna make where you're not being judged.

The only thing a bucket of shit is worth is the price of the bucket.

Because it's gorgeous," she said. A gold watch dangled from her fingers. "It's a Patek Philippe, from 1918. I've looked it up—it could be worth anything up to a quarter million.

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

In subjective and objective ways,others judge our actions,attitudes,and performance.

It is one's perception of a situation that determines if it's mountain or a molehill.

After all, you have just been sold a painting for $1 million, and the cost of making it was probably less than $500.