"self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal." — Ambrose Bierce

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• When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I… — Arthur Nersesian
• Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize… — Grenville Kleiser
• I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil. — Lynn Barber
• A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame,… — Isoroku Yamamoto
• When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can,… — Marianne Moore
• We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only… — Unknown Author
• What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his… — John Gunther
• Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what… — W. Edwards Deming
• The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance. — W. Edwards Deming
• Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As… — Jeffrey Pfeffer
• We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and… — Stefan Kieszling
• Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred… — Jeffrey Bland

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