Evaluating Quotes

“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating,
approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.”
― Abraham Maslow

“You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.”
― Ryan Lilly

“Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating.”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“Assess before you Assume”
― Lyle Kwiatkowski

“And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!”
“It’s the same difference!”
― Kim Harrison, Early to Death, Early to Rise

“When you see recurring problems, the methods you’ve used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.”
― Mark Miller, Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game

“? Reviews are for readers AND authors. It’s a good way of learning from what people think about the work. Being it good or bad. A book might as well be hurt by a bad, poorly written review. That’s such a pity. Some people don’t know how to express themselves, and maybe that’s why they are just readers and not writers, others read a book like chewing a cupcake. That’s too bad. If that was not your cup of tea, leave it there, untouched. Don’t go bash the author for that. But if you really hate the book, why bother telling others. It’s your problem after all. You can give constructive opinions but don’t blame the author for your different tastes and views. Also authors shouldn’t comment on reviews, it sounds unprofessional, even silly. Some busy writers don’t even have time to read what other people say about their work. If someone enjoyed your book, or not, that is irrelevant. If you will continue or not to write something else it doesn´t add to the plate.. Besides, why bother commenting on a review, just read it and shut up. Being it good or bad. So my opinions about authors commenting on reviews is just my opinions after all!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes

“When giving instructions, or evaluating a proposal, it helps to be a specific and not to assume the other side understands what we mean.

We must always be prepared for the fact that the listener may be stupid.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“He talked about you,' Tiernan says.

I feel like an animal after all, one that's been baited in its den. I both dread and desire him to keep talking. 'What did he say?'

'That you didn't like him.' He gives me an evaluating look. 'I thought maybe you'd had a falling-out when you were younger. But I think you do like him. You just don't want him to know it.'

The truth of that hurts. I grind my sharp teeth together.

'The prince is a flatterer. And a charmer. And a wormer around things,' Tiernan informs me, entirely unnecessarily. 'That makes it harder for him to be believed when he has something sincere to say. But no one would ever accuse me of being a flatterer...”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“I've come to suspect that whenever any ability is difficult to learn and rarely performed well, it's probably because contraries are called for - patting the head and rubbing the belly. Thus, good writing is hard because it means trying to be creative and critical; good teaching is hard because it means trying to be ally and adversary of students; good evaluation is hard because it means trying to be subjective and objective; good intelligence is rare because it means trying to be intuitive and logical.”
― Peter Elbow, Embracing Contraries: Explorations in Learning and Teaching

“Evaluating people is quite difficult. In order to properly evaluate a man, we should have a chance to observe his behavior when he has nothing, and when he has everything.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“Evaluating someone else for whatever reason only satisfies or benefits you, not the person you classify.”
― Ehsan Sehgal