Quotes About Appraisal

If there's one thing, I've been pretty good at evaluating people.

I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of character because I've had to judge a lot of characters.

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

Here's the thing: only the market can tell if your idea is good. Everything else is just opinion.

The show is worth seeing-if it is worth

performance-appraisal sheet would have looked like this: Adaptability 0 Adventuresomeness 100 Cruelty 100 Energy 100 Flexibility 0 Intelligence 100 Justice 100 Gets along well with others 0

judge all things by what they cost you.

This book is an attempt to gather together this immense storehouse of knowledge and ideas from different branches (see the bibliography for the key sources), to piece together an accurate and instructive guide to human nature, basing itself on the evidence, not on particular viewpoints or moral judgments. It is a brutally realistic appraisal of our species, dissecting who we are so we can operate with more awareness.

we suggest that observers rely primarily on anecdotal feedback during walkthroughs.

Moiraine had been taught to judge people's capabilities long before she left home.

A critical realization roared through the research community: the physiological stress-response can be modulated by psychological factors. Two identical stressors with the same extent of allostatic disruption can be perceived, can be appraised differently, and the whole show changes from there.

A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

The kind of self-image we may be best advised to seek, then, is not of ourselves as beautiful winners (as we are often told we should), but one wherein our strengths and weaknesses are realistically appraised with neither self-aggrandisement nor abnegation, and our share of inevitable failings looked upon with kindness and good humour.

They examine me like I'm a cow at a 4-H auction. I try not to moo.

The speech set a pattern that he would follow throughout the war, offering a sober appraisal of facts, tempered with reason for optimism. "It would be foolish to disguise the gravity of the hour," he said. "It would be still more foolish to lose heart and courage.

She'd once read out a comment she'd been given at her appraisal: You shouldn't believe that you're indispensable. Your role is to pass on your skills to others. 'Well

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.

When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.

Lawrence Berkman criticizing

Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.

I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.