Quotes About Appraisal

An objective loss is impervious to how you feel about it or react to it. It's not subject to anyone's appraisal; it must be accepted without evaluation.

Because he was male, and to please himself, he took a slow, masculine appraisal: from the top of her head down to those unbelievably ugly black cop shoes. Then back up again. And really found himself really wishing she'd gotten doughnut-dumpy.

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.

Resulting is the tendency to look at whether a result was good or bad to figure out whether a decision was good or bad.

What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.

I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

You're awfully good at sizing people up.' Amory denied this painfully. However, he sized up several people for her. Then they talked about hands. 'You've got awfully nice hands,' she said.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

I don't know how they judge fights sometimes.

I am the first one that knows when I am not doing well or I am doing well.

All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

I don't have a hostile disposition toward humankind per se. In fact, I feel quite warmly toward humankind. It's individual humans I have trouble with. I'm prone to a certain skepticism about people's motives and character, and this critical appraisal can harden into enduringly harsh judgment.

We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of others. See you at the Nobel, writers say, as one might say: see you in hell.

The core of science is not controlled experiment or mathetical modeling; it is intellectual honesty. It is time we acknowledge a basic feature of human discourse: when considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't.

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

cost-benefit analysis.

wasn't that she would judge me. It was more that I would feel myself being judged.

The people, the fans, the pundits, the people who watch on TV, they are the judges.

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

Valuation is what people are willing to pay.

I scouted all the girls at Wimbledon. I wasn't impressed.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.