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.
Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly...
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.
Appraisal – the best resources will get the worst result
Don't work for appraisal or appreciation, work for your personal growth
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
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.
...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.
Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.
I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand...
Every interaction in the marketplace produces some kind of evaluation or appraisal opportunity that can be conveyed to others by the person on the receiving end of the interaction.
Confident people do not compete with others nor race for recognition to appraise themselves. They do not worry what others think of them. They do not struggle for affirmation. They know themselves well to be shaken up from the outside.
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.
He feared, in his secret heart, that one day in company the baby would sit up and speak; that it would engage his eyes, appraise him, and say, 'You prick.
