Quotes About Evaluation

My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me.

It is out first love that we will use to gauge all others.

Love at first sight is possible, but it pays to take a second look.

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

I sometimes find it difficult to distinguish praise from blame.

Problems need to be understood before they can be solved, instructions need to be taken in before they can be followed, ideas need to be shared and absorbed before they can be evaluated.

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

resist the temptation to jump to a solution;

You measure system capability; you do not prescribe it.

When you try to measure performance, particularly the performance of knowledge workers, you're positively courting dysfunction.

I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.

All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

Don't judge a lion by its swimming abilities.

Speaking is the live test of leadership orientation.

I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

Don't think your work matters more than it does.

If your life isn't working You have to ask why.

Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

If you failed one test, there was a test to see why. I suppose they loved tests so much because they believed in free will.

She stepped outside, wondering whether a life could really be judged from just a few minutes after midnight on a Tuesday. Or maybe that was all you needed.

Assessment culture is toxic. The Belgian professor of psychoanalysis, Paul Verhaeghe, believes that the way work is now set up in our societies, with supervisors supervising supervisors and everyone being watched and marked and continually assessed, is toxic.

All that matters is stories feel true, they resonate....the point is not to determine the truth by a process of rational evaluation, assessment and conclusion. You choose your own reality, as if from a buffet.