Evaluation Quotes

• Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

  John Wooden

  Self, Inevitable, Self Evaluation

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• Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.

  Henry Cloud

  Gratitude, And Love, Mature

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2014

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• Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.

  Peter Drucker

  Yesterday, Energy, Strategy

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• Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Order, Goal, Needs

  FaceBook post by Quentin L Cook from Nov 17, 2014

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• The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Secret, Satisfaction

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creativity, Nuts, Would Be

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• There are three kinds of feedback and organizations must utilize all three to be effective:
  1. Evaluation. This rates you against standards and peers. It lets you know where you stand.
  2. Coaching. This information helps you get better and learn. It is an engine for learning.
  3. Appreciation. Most desire for feedback is usually for appreciation. It motivates us.

  Sheila Heen

  Appreciation, Organization, Coaching

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• True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

  Winston Churchill

  Decision, Genius, Information

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• It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

  Quint Studer

  Teaching, Learning, Organization

  Quint Studer (2010). “Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top”, p.106, John Wiley & Sons

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• Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.

  Carroll Smith

  Drawing, Important, Wheels

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• The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those that don't seem to work out in the short term: they will provide valuable distinctions to make better evaluations and therefore decisions in the future. Realize that decision making, like any skill you focus on improving, gets better the more often you do it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Motivational, Skills, Work Out

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• Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Decisions You Make, Decision, Who You Are

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Mar 28, 2012

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• Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point.

  Quint Studer

  Moving, Teaching, Learning

  Quint Studer (2010). “Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top”, p.106, John Wiley & Sons

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• To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.

  Andy Stanley

  Self, Leader, Coaching

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• We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.

  Warren Buffett

  Decision, Investment, Combination

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• After doing an honest evaluation of myself, I recognize that there are certain issues that I need to work on. Like everyone, I have my flaws, and I do not want to be one of those people that is afraid to admit and address those flaws.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Issues, People, Needs

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• Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Parent, Support

  "Ask the Teachers" by Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Evaluation and coaching get tangled together. When this occurs, the noise of evaluation drowns out coaching efforts. Think of this like a term paper. When you get your assignment grade back (evaluation) you tend to tune out the professor notes in the margins (coaching) if the grade is higher or lower than expected.

  Sheila Heen

  Thinking, Term Paper, Tangled

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• If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Facts, Ability, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

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• Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.

  Bruce Lee

  Guides

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.380, Tuttle Publishing

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• You can only get so far from an evaluation standpoint in practice, and you know, at some point, you've got to go play and kind of take that next step in the evaluation of just where you are and then grow and make adjustments as you go throughout the year.

  Dabo Swinney

  Years, Practice, Play

  Source: beachcarolina.com

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• Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

  Bruce Lee

  Mirrors, Self, Action

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• Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

  Alfie Kohn

  Rating, Grades, Subjective

  Alfie Kohn (2000). “The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the more difficult things about being a judge is as you're listening to the evidence, you have to be formulating how you're going to explain your evaluation of that evidence.

  Steven Pacey

  Judging, Listening, Difficult

  Source: www.paxtonrecord.net

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