Valuation Quotes

If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.

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.

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.

I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

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

When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.

In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience

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.

Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.

High valuations entail high risks.

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight

The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.

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.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

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.