Quotes About Performance Appraisals

#1. 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.

W. Edwards Deming

#2. It is an unquestioned assumption that managers should have and set targets and then create control systems - incentives, performance appraisals, budget reporting and computers to keep track of them all - to ensure the targets are met. In Toyota, these practices simply do not exist. To

John Seddon

#3. The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.

W. Edwards Deming

#4. I think meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I'd read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, 'This is really surreal.'

Richard Madden

#5. Heltah Skeltah-meets-Portishead would be like the Brand New Heavies Hip Hop album, something like that. That's dope, word.

Sean Price

#6. In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others.

Thomas Harding

#7. No power can withstand divine Love.

Mary Baker Eddy

#8. My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

Sophie Hannah

#9. Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Wendell Mayes

#10. The sooner you learn to be kind to yourself, the sooner you will heal and move on with the life you want. It's time to stop letting other people run your life and control how you feel.

Paige Dearth

#11. You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.

Gerhard Richter

#12. Looking out over the expanse ahead I saw not an empty wasteland but something simpler: a blank page on which I would go on.

Paul Kalanithi