potential assessment Quotes

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Some advice from a beginner: never judge your full potential based on your first run.

Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.

I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

I'm the type of employer who will hire based on personality, based on potential. If you put the resume before the personality, you're going to fail.

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.