“The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come).” PerfectLevelsDegreesHighestTestsMedicineRewardsIllnessBelieverTrialsCuresHard TimesEncouragingDiminishTestingMuslimHereafterWords Of EncouragementKeep The FaithOrdealsKeep Believing Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
“God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.” WayDoeDifferencesOffersTesting Author:W. T. Purkiser
“It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.” WayMayDifficultForgetTestsNever ForgetTestingPurificationRefining Author:Billy Graham
“The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.” MayOrderGoldAdversityTestingGood And BadScum Author:Rumi
“The test of any man lies in action.” MenActionLyingTestsTestingLying Men Book:The Odes of Pindar Source: The Odes of Pindar
“In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work.” UseHandsCertainOrderDesignDevelopmentAmountWalkingMoonJudgmentResearchSpendingCommandDirtyEngagedShopsTestingTaxpayersStar GazingPersonnelResearch And DevelopmentContractor Author:Wernher von Braun
“I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.” PeopleKnowsFirstsIdeasCharacterShowsJoyStuffEnjoySecretAudienceStudyFrontsTestingMoleculesLove Making Author:Mike Myers
“I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.” PeopleDoneFilmDifficultBehindsVisionOpinionTenVariousStudiosMovieTestingAdjustmentIntrigued Author:Carla Gugino
“I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.” PeopleRealFieldsTheoryVarietyCriticizePassiveSkepticismTestingDiscouragingArmchairs Author:Tim Ferriss
“Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.” HardWaterHigherOfficeIndifferenceEngagedCandidatesTesting Author:Jeff Greenfield
“I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.” ThinkingGivingMeanMatterSidesViewsEqualJudgmentPoint Of ViewFairnessTesting Author:Bill Keller
“The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social life; the pragmatic study of methodologies to improve our body-mind functioning and thus expand our capacities of self-fashioning; and the practical branch that investigates such pragmatic methods by testing them on our own flesh in concrete experience and practice.” MindSelfPhilosophyBodyActionThreeSocialMoralRolesPracticeStudyPsychologyPerceptionCapacityMethodMedicineFleshSensesPracticalsBranchesConcreteTestingSocial LifePragmaticMethodologyAnalyticsSoma Author:Richard Shusterman