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Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be…

— Grenville Kleiser

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful…

— Marianne Moore

Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among…

— Albert Bandura

Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have…

— Albert Bandura

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

— Lynn Barber

Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved…

— W. Edwards Deming

When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I…

— Arthur Nersesian

Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack…

— Albert Bandura

I made a conscious decision when I was writing that book to depict in real time how I treated it, and how I thought…

— Melissa Febos

“Appraisal – the best resources will get the worst result”

— Vivek Thangaswamy

I have huge questions about Vision Appraisal - you bet I do. I'm very worried about what happens when we hand over our destiny…

— Robert Falcon Scott

In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less…

— Corinne Maier

We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we…

— Percy Spender

Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Every interaction in the marketplace produces some kind of evaluation or appraisal opportunity that can be conveyed to others by the person on the…

— Jim Blasingame