Evaluators Think Quotes & Sayings

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer. — Leslie Fiedler

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved. — Theophile Gautier

I think that's everything. It was a fun job, wasn't it ?
When you remember me, please remember that. Remember to smile. — Brandon Sanderson

He'd finished watching Blossom and gone to bed. — Andersen Prunty

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again. — Eudora Welty

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. — John Bradshaw

I used to think I was that girl you remember. And maybe I was, maybe those memories are real, maybe that girl who looked like me really was an angel. But maybe angels fall, maybe the wind blows and just like that they can be twisted into something unrecognizable. — Amy Reed

there will be four evaluators staring at me for close to two hours. — Lauren Oliver

I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble. — Charles Barkley

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. — Charles Baudelaire

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive. — Sally Mann

What is most important is that the brand African cinema is going beyond African cinema. — Jihan El-Tahri

What is the authority in your life? Is it your selfishness? Your lust? Your greed? Or have you turned it all over to God and said, "Lord, You are going to be my authority"? When you are under authority, you are then able to assume authority. — Billy Graham

The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities. — Charlotte Beers

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got. — Salman Rushdie

There's no use dwelling on the things you could have changed. Believe me. Too much reflection on all the could-haves and should-haves will only hold you in your past. — Karina Halle