Quotes About Evaluation

You have no idea of how many people have control of your life. Make lists of people you trust and love and constantly examine the people in your life.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

If you look at YOURSELF as the brand, then you will understand an intrinsic truth: People judge.

When you wrap up a task for someone who counts on you and/ or your team, why not take a moment to ask how it went? Why not ask, "Hey, how easy were we to work with?" In fact, why not ask them to rate you on a scale of one to 10 to let you know how hassle-free the experience of working with you or buying from you was? If you get any score less than a 10, then ask, "What would I need to do to get that up to a 10?

When I interview candidates, I like to go where they live, so I can see them in their environment, not just in mind.

We will probably have the nagging feeling that we are not doing things right. This is good because confronting our negative feelings and our fear of incompetence can help us begin analysis.

Courtship is the time during which the girl decides whether or not she can do any better. Anonymous

Even when you practice zazen alone, without a teacher, I think you will find some way to tell whether your practice is adequate or not.

Just because it was done well, doesn't mean it couldn't have been done better.

If professionals consider one thing "unjust," it is often this: Split-second operational decisions that get evaluated, turned over, examined, picked apart, and analyzed for months—by people who were not there when the decision was taken, and whose daily work does not even involve such decisions.

There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight. It is essential that the critic should keep himself constantly aware of that fact."1

A whole complex system cannot be inspected, only parts or sub-systems can be inspected.

History passes the final judgment.

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Getting called into the coach's office is like getting called into the principal's office. And I never have good enough grades to hope it's because the principal has nice news.

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it — the present, that is to say, must have become the past — before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

First impressions are crap.

Here's how they rated him when the looked back: sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that.

Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.