Quotes About Assessment

how much a thing means to one man and how little it means to another ain't the right way to look at a business matter.

The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

A perfect work destroys the critic's art.

You can still tell the truth by "pointing to" an abstraction or assessment of your mind, if your intent is simply to point out your thought, rather than to make the other person believe your thought to be the "right interpretation" of reality.

At least one anointed bar raiser would participate in every interview process and would have the power to veto a candidate who did not meet the goal of raising the company's overall hiring bar.

No one bothered to glance up at us, as though they'd weighed the effort of sliding their eyes in our direction against the possible benefits and decided, hey, it isn't worth it. The

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite perspective of all they've told me. Do you think that's crazy? "No," I said, shaking my head, "I'd guess your method works quite well.

Chevron, for example, has a decision-analysis group whose members facilitate decision-framing workshops; coordinate data gathering for analysis; build and refine economic and analytical models; help project managers and decision makers interpret analyses; point out when additional information and analysis would improve a decision; conduct an assessment of decision quality; and coach decision makers.

Every week, take a quiet hour to reflect on recent critical events—conflicts, failures, opportunities you exploited, observations of others' behavior, feedback from others. Consider how you responded, what went well, what didn't, and what might be more effective in the future. Never cancel this meeting—it's crucial.

Sometimes we avoid checking in on our progress because we don't want to acknowledge how little progress we've made.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.

I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I think I am my own biggest critic, yeah.

Yeah, at the end of the year you always sit back and you evaluate, and unless you have a perfect season with no misses there is always room for improvement.

Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I've been available for, how many goals I've scored, how I've contributed. But that's what the summer's for. For now, you just look to the next one.

Usually you have a feel for what a kid's abilities are by the end of their sophomore year.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

The traditional markers people use for hiring can be wrong - profoundly wrong.

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.