Quotes About Assessment

I feel, it is essential to see oneself on-screen so as to be a better judge of one's performance.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

I believe that everyone has a right to have an opinion about things or people, and fortunately, I have been lucky to have heard usually good things about myself. However, I must admit that people can be quite critical about your role also.

Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

My first impressions of people are invariably right.

Heath was still Heath--cute, but not the brightest Crayola in the pack.

They're being really judgmental.

anyone looking at you would write you off as a brainless nincompoop with about as much intelligence as a dead rabbit.

Mr. Chester, standing near the door with Ann, eyed the assemblage with the genial contempt of a large dog for a voluble pack of small ones.

One glance at the girl convinced R. Jones that he had been right. Circumstances had made him a rapid judge of character, for in profession of living by one's wits in a large city, the first principle of offence and defence is to sum people up at first sight.

every woman needs to stop sometimes at the great railway station of life—on the evening of her big birthday, or the end of a big love affair, or even an ordinary afternoon—and take stock of where she is, how she got there, where she's going, and why. That's what you're doing right this very minute. You've already started. And you're already there.

From 10 to 20 percent were functionally impaired as measured by the self-test SF-36.

my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right.

You really try to evaluate the risks and provide for them. Whether it's going to be a pleasant or unpleasant surprise, you try to evaluate the risk.

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12

physiognomy

folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

there was one "meta" ability that emerged: self-awareness. Chief executives need this ability to assess their own strengths and weaknesses, and so surround themselves with a team of people whose strengths in those core abilities complement their own.

Dr Strauss said do anything the testor telld me even if it dont make no sense because thats testing.

I'm not sure what I.Q. is anyway. Prof. Nemur said it was something that measured how intelligent you were—like a scale in the drugstore weighs pounds. But Dr. Strauss had a big argument with him and said an I.Q. didn't weigh intelligence at all. He said an I.Q. showed how much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup. You still had to fill the cup up with stuff.

However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones — only those who are depressed or dysphoric come to accurate assessments.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.?