Quotes About Evaluation

before it even began to dawn upon me that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12

I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.

If I'm a pastor, the trinitarian fellowship is my first team. My ultimate loyalty is to that fellowship. My primary identity is as a part of that fellowship. My understanding of how I am doing in life comes out of that trinitarian fellowship. No other team is allowed to determine my identity or evaluate my performance beyond that one.

all evaluations eventually boil down to this: Am I moving toward God or away from Him? Am I turning toward God with awe and gratitude, or away from Him toward false gods of my own making?

Fortunately for you, we British judge man's civility not by his compassion for his friends, but by his compassion for his enemies

It must be remembered, however, that everything looks good on a resume and that previous experience is difficult to verify and to quantify.

I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no not the taking off of the ground, one of those knives is worth all this heap, I have no manner of use for thee, e'en remain where thou art, and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving. However, upon second thoughts, I took it away...

folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

It provides a convenient excuse for arbitrary decisions: asked why it rejected a student, a college can say that he or she looked wonderful on paper but didn't fit into the mix. The image of a fair but fickle process also pumps up the applicant pool:

And one of the paradoxes is that leaders, the higher they go, the less vertical feedback they get on how they're actually doing, because people are afraid to tell them. So leaders can go off in a direction thinking they're doing fine, not realizing they're not

What's missing in tests of ability is motivation

In a company everyone is part of the system, and so feedback is the lifeblood of the organization, the exchange of information that lets people know if the job they are doing is going well or needs to be fine-tuned, upgraded, or redirected entirely. Without feedback people are in the dark; they have no idea how they stand with their boss, with their peers, or in terms of what is expected of them, and any problems will only get worse as time passes.

Dr Strauss said do anything the testor telld me even if it dont make no sense because thats testing.

I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

We walk around every day not knowing the exact level of risk and benefit associated with most of our actions, yet it remains our responsibility to decide what's worth pursuing.

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.