Quotes About Assessment

It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not receiving feedback on your performance.

When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

Recruiting is not an exact science.

I've had friends of mine hire people that I know well or that have worked for me, and I haven't gotten the call to do a reference check. That's almost the most basic thing one can do to assess them.

You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.

I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

Everybody hates critics.

'Cannonball Run II' - you watch that, and it looks like they're having a good time, but it's not necessarily a masterpiece.

Fundamentally, adopting rules without any estimate of the impact is the height of arbitrary decision-making.

So how helpful has 'Help to Work' actually been? Not very.

I'm very hesitant to call somebody a racist, a sexist.

Our higher education admissions process is neither fair nor effective.

I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.

We need to work together to fairly assess and improve the long-term economic and health value - and affordability - of all components of the healthcare system, including hospitalizations, drugs, devices, and other interventions, to optimize our health investment decisions.

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

I don't size up their grades or their board scores. Because in America today, that's just an advantage certain people have. I size up the give and take, the speed of thinking, what I perceive as ambition. I say, 'Tell me about your high school jobs.' And I love people who worked in coffee shops who were waiters and waitresses.

You have to know what your customers think about your product and where you sit, relatively speaking. You have to know what's working and what's not working.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

In Germany, apprentices undergo a final examination in the vocational school and an oral examination and practical test in the workplace. The same should happen in Britain.

You can evaluate your competitiveness and your potential in international competitions like the World Cup.