The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.
PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest.
My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.
Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.
I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit.
I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents.
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!
My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page.
Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.
I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.
