“In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.” ThinkingWayWaitingMorningMinutesLateTestsWake UpMathAdolescence Author:Daniel Clowes
“The last thing you want to do is be a bore. When you wake up in the morning, give yourself a good mirror test. If you look like you’re going to be a sulking, pouting bore, slap yourself in the face before you go out to the office.” IfsWantGivingLooksLastsFacesMorningLike YouOfficeTestsWake UpMirrorsBoresSlapSulkingPouting Author:Jack Welch
“I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at one after. I don't like them because there's a big gap between what you conceive in your mind when you're writing and you don't have to meet the test of reality. You're home, you write and it's funny and beautiful and romantic and dramatic, and then you have to show up on a cold morning, and you don't have enough of this and this goes wrong and you make the wrong choice on something and you screwed up and you can't go back.” WritingMindDoneEnoughShowsHomeBigsRealityBeautifulFilmChoicesMorningColdTestsFinishedSatisfiedDramaticGapsScrewed UpWrong ChoicesCold Morning Author:Woody Allen
“A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that await sinners; If he tests himself every evening as to how he has spent the day, and every morning as to how he has spent the night, and if is not sharp in his relations with others.” IfsMenInspirationalChristianNightReligiousMorningEternalTestsRelationEveningSinnerOrthodoxEvery MorningRemembranceTorment Author:Dorotheus of Gaza
“There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'” FeelsI CanTwoImportantHomeWaitingMorningReadyTestsWake UpStomachAfternoonMondayFridayPitsMonday MorningFriday Afternoon Author:Charles Schumer
“At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.” PeopleIfsShouldJobsSimpleResponsibilityMorningShould HaveTestsGet UpSubsidies Author:James Cook
“The president of a TV network generously agreed to take his company's aptitude test, a test required of all the personnel. He did badly. As a result he was in a sullen mood for the rest of the day. When he got home that night, his wife asked why he looked so grouchy. I took the company's aptitude test this morning. What did it show? asked the wife. It showed, boomed the executive, that such tests are idiotic. That's what it showed.” ShowsHomeNightPresidentResultsCompanyMorningWifeTvsTestsMoodExecutivesIdioticAptitudePersonnelSullenGrouchyAptitude Test Author:Joey Bishop
“All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.” WorldIdeasHomeLightMotivationPassionNextEasyLosesChallengesInterestingMorningTakenEasierTasksTestsCourtSurpriseBarsAriseBeerChanging The WorldAbandonNext DayConquestPredictableInteresting ThingsNew ChallengesNapkinsLusterMorning Light Author:Scott Berkun