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

Want Giving Oil Iron Appraisal

Author:Lynn Barber

“A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.”

Men Doe Made Matter Certain Sleep Enemy Seeing Military Pride Shame Determined Outraged Smitten Appraisal Military Man Counter Attack

Author:Isoroku Yamamoto

“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 as appraisal of the appraiser.”

Seems Temptation Blunders Appraisal Appraise

Book:The complete prose of Marianne Moore

Source: The complete prose of Marianne Moore

“What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.”

Men Made Color News Impact Fabric Flavor Texture Appraisal

Author: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 the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work.”

Giving Party Risk Evidence Performances Management Decades Traditional Managers Employee Suspects Risk Management Appraisal

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.”

Problem Risk Performances Management Risk Management Appraisal

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work.”

“We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was a mement of what seemed like mutual appraisal. For me, it was like being at a regatta, sizing up the competition on the dock before climbing into the shells. Could I take him? ... He could inflict serious damage. I sensed that. But he would be unfamiliar with rowers - men used to toiling backwards, blindly, trained, most of all, to endure.”

Men Moments Hands Would Be Eye Used Found Serious Mets Competition Endure Damage Mutual Climbing Shells Backwards Unfamiliar Rowing Docks Appraisal Toiling

Author: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 (and)...in nearly half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced. ...About 12% of the innovations increased complications.”

Age Dark Half Cases Office Doctors Innovation Medical Therapy Replaced Breakthrough Harvard Dark Ages Complication Appraisal Anesthesia

Author:Jeffrey Bland

“Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.”

Ifs Years Said Nations Process Interest Decision United Ten Essentials Years Ago Organization Decision Making Participation United Nations Appraisal Nairobi

Author:Jenny Shipley

“But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior.”

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Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It