Quotes About Evaluation

Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self-criticism.

Better than Tennyson,' Reacher said. 'You have to give me that.

We need to triage those six hundred places.

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It is dangerous to judge ability by short-term results.

When a teacher initially believes that one student is smarter than another, he selectively focuses on evidence that tends to confirm the hypothesis.

We cannot see a person's potential, only his or her results, so we often misjudge people by thinking that the results must reflect the person.

Just as, looking at a Rorschach blot, you might see Madonna and I, a duck-billed platypus, the data we encounter in business, law, medicine, sports, the media, or your child's third-grade report card can be read in many ways. Yet interpreting the role of chance in an event is not like intepreting a Rorschach blot; there are right ways and wrong ways to do it.

Obviously it can be a mistake to assign brilliance in proportion to wealth. We cannot see a person's potential, only his or her results, so we often misjudge people by thinking that the results must reflect the person.

wine might be rated 91, but that number is meaningless if we have no estimate of the variation that would occur if the identical wine were rated again and again or by someone else.

Our assessment of the world would be quite different if all our judgments could be insulated from expectation and based only on relevant data.

When we perform an assessment or measurement, our brains do not rely solely on direct perceptional input. They also integrate other sources of information—such as our expectation.

In fact, studies show that the people with the most accurate self-perceptions tend to be moderately depressed, suffer from low self-esteem, or both. An overly positive self-evaluation, on the other hand, is considered normal and healthy.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

important—unimportant—unimportant—important—' as if he were trying which word sounded best.

Don't interrupt. I'm going to tell you all your flaws.

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.

I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.

Judging is a defense mechanism. If anger in its purest form is temporary displeasure, then judgment is permanent rejection.

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.