Merit-Based Evaluation Quotes

In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that's when the profession goes into decline.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. [Then], when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention [than] if you hadn't done that constantly.

I'm a lifelong Democrat, but I have supported some Republicans. I'm all about results, man. If somebody can deliver, that's where I'm gonna go. It's about who can get the job done.

I want to be judged on my own merits.

You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.

I judge each person on individual merits.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that fact, nor is he subject to any disability, no matter what his race or color. Whatever his race, an applicant has a constitutional right to have his application considered on its individual merits.

The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.

It is unfair to say one doctor is better than the other based on a degree, especially because we are all trained together during residency.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors did or suffered. We are supposed to be judged as individuals, based on what we are able to achieve.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance.

Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.

If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.

One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.

I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the content of their character." In the scientific world, people are judged by the content of their ideas. Advances are made with new insights, but the final arbitrator of any point of view are experiments that seek the unbiased truth, not information cherry picked to support a particular point of view.

I would love to see all agencies connect to models more for who they are and can be as opposed to what they've done.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.