Quotes About Assessment

Once, he got himself invited to a meeting with the CEO of Bank of America, Ken Lewis. "I was sitting there listening to him. I had an epiphany. I said to myself, 'Oh my God, he's dumb!' A lightbulb went off. The guy running one of the biggest banks in the world is dumb!

Myers-Briggs–type personality test.

One list consisted of nineteen male names and twenty female names, the other of twenty female names and nineteen male names. The list that had more female names on it had more names of famous men, and the list that had more male names on it contained the names of more famous women. The unsuspecting Oregon students, having listened to a list, were then asked to judge if it contained the names of more men or more women.

The University of Michigan psychologist Dick Nisbett, after he'd met Amos, designed a one-line intelligence test: The sooner you figure out that Amos is smarter than you are, the smarter you are.

recalls Avishai Margalit. "You discussed people. It was a constant thing, a constant puzzle: What makes others tick? It comes from the shtetl. Jews were petty merchants. They had to assess others, all the time. Who is dangerous? Who is not dangerous? Who will repay the debt, who won't repay the debt? People were basically dependent on their psychological judgment.

The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible. I always ask them, 'Who did you miss?' he said. Which future superstar had they written off, or which future bust had they fallen in love with? If they don't give me a good one, I'm like, 'Fuck 'em.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

Every re-election campaign is a referendum on the incumbent. Every. Single. One.

Pavarotti is not judged on how he sings in the shower. People wait until he gets on stage.

I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward.

When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

You can't improve if you don't know what the real situation is.

How I pick running backs, I always go off what situation they're in. I look at guys and what they had around them.

I like to read the situation and play accordingly.

Game management is very important. Realizing the situation of a match.

Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined.

I never look at an acquisition really by size.

I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

We'll know when our skating career is over by how we've progressed over the years and if we think we've got to a place where we couldn't do any better - then it would be time to retire.

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball.

IQ test was invented not to determine how smart people are but how stupid)