"We want to believe in the essential, unchanging……" — Philip Zimbardo

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in… - Philip Zimbardo

"We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil."

— Philip Zimbardo

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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… — Percy Spender
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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