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Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.
Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early.
I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.
I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
Virtually all big law firms have good to super-good lawyers. All big law firms don't have great litigators.
Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
I gather most people don't remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was made of the Open going to a public course for the first time.
The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money.
My mother was in labour for two full days before having me on a sunny August afternoon. She went into labour on the 7th, and I chose to make my big entrance on the 9th.
I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.
Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us, there is a scientific force that connects it all that we don't really know about.
I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.
Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
The big umbrella issue is, do I make a bigger difference on the outside of political process or on the inside?
One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
I grew up around it. That was what my friends were listening to - some of my closest friends are big hip-hop fans.
I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
Meatloaf was a pretty big part of our family, and the meatloaf sandwiches were even more.
I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
My great-grandmother was in one of the first girl bands, in the 1920s. Their outfits were mental: velvet bloomers with big ribbons and headpieces. They were brilliant.
I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.
I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.
There was so much music growing up. But definitely Lil Wayne was a big influence because I had more of an understanding of what I was listening to when I was getting older.
Kamala Harris is fumbling and she's like, 'Oh, I'm going to go after Twitter because Elizabeth Warren sucked all the oxygen out of the room.' She's standing up and saying, 'I'm going to go after Facebook, I'm going to break them up, I'm going to go after all of these big technology companies.'
To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.
I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come out more clearly in the outline than they do in the pages.
We had a reward system and a protection system. We would reward players for big plays, things that can help your team win. And then also, we paid guys money for protection, especially guys who couldn't protect themselves and especially offensive players.
I'm open for big fights, and it would be my dream to make my division in the UFC.
I got a call from my manager saying, 'Howie Mandel wants to talk to you.' And I'm a comic - big fan of all he's done. He was pitching me 'Caraoke Showdown', and I was just excited about it.
When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.
If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.
We called the head of CBS and said, 'We know how network television feels about musicals. Would you even consider doing 'Gypsy?'' He said, 'If I did say yes, you'd have to have a big movie star who does not do TV.' I told him that, in our fantasy world, we'd like Bette Midler. He said, 'Get Bette Midler, and you have an on-the-air commitment.'
Beans are such a nice, neutral canvas, you can make a big, basic pot of them and then play around with them differently every day.
You know a date's gone really well when she's happy with nothing fancier than a Big Mac and fries!
Thankfully, my manager didn't talk me into 'Big Brother' or 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!'
Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.
Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.
I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper.
Republicans have always talked about having a big tent, but it doesn't do any good if the tent doesn't have any chairs in it. Bringing Latinos to the forefront, bringing women in is absolutely critical.
I'm a big fan of 'Glee.' I think it's really smart. And I think it's well-timed. But you can't not be surprised at the reception this show's received. It's really something else.
I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to my early 20s.
When I was a teenager I loved snowboarding, but in my 20s I was too big to strap my feet in the boards.
I was a really big R.E.M. fan when I was like, in my freshman year of high school. I was a huge R.E.M. fan.
When I left Liverpool, I knew had to leave. It was a big step but it was something I had to do. A lot of people asked if it was hard, it wasn't hard. It was something I needed to do to improve and get better as a footballer.
If people want to go do some big outdoor thing for their ego, have them climb snowy mountains rather than shoot animals.
There's a big difference between when I'm Tom and when I'm Conchita. Conchita uses very proper German; Tom talks in an Austrian dialect. Conchita gets mad if she is kept waiting; Tom is lazy.
When films are remade, it often becomes a big deal. In theater, it's called a revival.
For me, my mythology growing up was 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' and 'Star Wars' and 'E.T.' and 'Ghostbusters.' That's what I grew up on, and there aren't many people who can write that kind of scale of story, stories that are that big.
'John Henry Days' was already half in the can before my first book came out, so I'd already started something that was big and sprawling - I just had to finish it.
If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white.
Stephen King in general, as well as films of the apocalypse from the '70s, had a big influence on 'Zone One.'
One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.
I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.
Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is.
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