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“So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.”

Persons Friends Affection Worthy Experts Testing

Book:Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays

Source: Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays

“Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.”

Important Known Unexpected Discovering Testing Testers

Author:George E. P. Box

“If you look at the top ten most reliable cars, as reported by thousands of people in all kinds of independent testing, there's only one American car in the top ten. It's the Buick.”

People Ifs Looks Kind Car Ten Independent All Kinds Testing American Cars

Author:Howard Fineman

“a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.”

Thinking Stills Answers Testing

Book:Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Source: Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

“Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.”

Important Kids Testing

Author:Marcia Gay Harden

“Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.”

“My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.”

Way Believe Kind Light Desire White Rooms Color Refuse Squares Pale Testing Mantras Pigment Small Rooms

Author:Bryan Batt

“Its not that I dont value my life. Its just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.”

Values Lines Chance Testing Take A Chance

Author:Wendy O. Williams

“Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the reason for the wax is that the E.T.S. tests persist in showing some people to be smarter than others. And if some people are smarter than others, there might actually be some justification for an economic system in which some people have more money and authority than others.”

People Ifs Reason Might Economic Authority Tests Organization Educational More Money Justification Smarter Persist Testing Attacking Economic Systems Aptitude Scholastics Aptitude Test

Author:Daniel Seligman

“Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.”

Internet Video Mediums Testing Revenue

Author:Mark Cuban

“I just like testing myself. I just have that thing in me. Whatever it is that people tell me I can't do, I've gotta try it.”

People Trying I Can Testing Tell Me I Can T

Author:Chris Gethard

“I like to discover new things and I'm always testing new apps.”

New Things Testing Apps

Author:Francois-Henri Pinault

“To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.”

Knows World Way Real Answers Situation Substitutes Real World Predictions Testing Testing Yourself

Author:Nate Silver

“Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.”

Wind Strategy Testing Tunnels Forecasting

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.”

Children Decision Risk Concern Complicated Testing Disabled Miscarriage Disabled Children

Author:Emily Oster

“I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.”

People Thinking Needs Sometimes Kids Certain Path Healthy Boundaries Behave Behaviour Testing Liberating

Author:Noah Baumbach

“All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!”

World Want Needs Use Pay Products Development Assuming Customers Changing The World Engineers Testing Product Development

Author:Brian Tracy

“Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.”

Way May States Difficult Path Genius Tests Testing Quagmire Testing Yourself

Author:Mike Tyson

“Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by Professors Montjuic and Lauterbrunnen, and now reads, in the Shorter Harvard Orthodoxy: (a) I think, therefore I am; or (b) Perhaps I thought, therefore I was; but (c) These days, I tend to leave that side of things to my wife.”

Thinking Sides Wife Groups Destruction Logic My Wife Conclusion These Days Immortal Professors Graduates Testing Harvard Orthodoxy Researchers Princeton

Book:Ye Gods!

Source: Ye Gods!

“Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.”

Years Wells Littles Running Stuff Waiting Poor Forever Huge Drink Aging Drinking Noses Testing Monk Champagne Barrels Oklahoma Vineyards Bourbon Tulsa

Author:John Michael Hayes

“I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. And everyone has that kind of curiosity of how far can you go, how far can you take it. I think it's always good testing yourself.”

People Thinking Kind Done Jobs Lines Hair Curiosity Makeup Testing Spoil Rotten Sissy Testing Yourself

Author:Christian Bale

“There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They don't mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter's behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.”

Trying Mean Matter Ability Deals Mistake Fit Behavior Daughter Tests Handle Salt Grain Testing Grammar Parallels Outrageous Spelling Your Daughter Grain Of Salt

Author:Stella Chess

“The Universe is abundant with everything that you want. It's not testing you. It's benevolently providing for you. But you are the orchestrater. You are the definer, and you do it through your joyous anticipation. If there is an emotion that you are wanting to foster, that would serve you very, very well, it is positive expectation. It is excited anticipation.”

Ifs Want Wells Universe Emotion Expectations Excited Law Of Attraction Abundance Anticipation Providing Testing Joyous Power Of Positive Thinking Thoughts Become Things Positive Expectations

Author:Esther Hicks

“In each meditation session, we gather knowledge about the mind through observation, questioning, and testing. We do this over and over, until we gradually develop a meaningful understanding of our own mind.”

Mind Understanding Knowledge Meditation Meaningful Observation Questioning Testing Session

Author:Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

“A lot of players are slow to change, you're playing good,( you think) why do I want to mess with that ? It takes a lot of testing, a lot of practice and observation of the ball, especially under competitive circumstances, to realize this is a better product and I need to start using it.”

Thinking Want Needs Change Realizing Practice Player Products Circumstances Balls Observation Mess Testing

Author:David Duval

“Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that this is a testing-ground and the prize will be awarded up above; that we are now in a land of exile while our true homeland is Heaven to which we must continually aspire.”

Facts Eye Earth Heaven Land Victory Paradise Prize Crowns Aspire Testing Exile Homeland Battlefields

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.”

Steps Becoming Essentials Crisis Method Environmental Substance Chemicals Pollution Testing Adequate Hazards Inviting Environmental Crisis

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971

“We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.”

Needs Community Teacher Judgment Approach Capacity Locals Pursue Platforms Testing Prudent Initiate Frontline

Author:Andy Hargreaves

“I have become a giant fan of the testing process, especially with a comedy. I mean, they tell you what's funny. It's almost tailor-made for people who shoot the way we shoot, trying a million different options and versions of things. Because the audience doesn't laugh at a joke, we put in another joke. If they don't laugh at the next joke, we put in another joke. You just keep doing them and you can get the movie to the point where every joke is funny, if you have enough options in the can.”

People Ifs Way Trying Mean Made Different Enough Next Process Millions Audience Laughing Comedy Fans Jokes Versions Giants Testing Tailors

Author:Seth Rogen

“All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot a five-minute version of. If you just extrapolate that through the whole movie, I have a very long version of every scene, usually because, if there's one funny joke, I'll shoot five because I don't know if the one I like is going to work. I'll get back-ups because my biggest fear is to be in previews, testing the movie, and a joke doesn't work, but I have no way to fix it because I have no other line.”

Ifs Knows Way Long Whole Three Hours Lines Five Cutting Minutes Scene Jokes Shots Versions Get Back Seconds Testing Going To Work Five Minutes Biggest Fear Funny Jokes Preview

Author:Judd Apatow

“I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important, but once you give over to what reviewers think, that's tricky. You don't know what their agenda is; it's so subjective. You have got to make sure you are asking someone's opinion who you know.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Important Film Values Opinion Tools Asking Agendas Testing Subjective Tricky Reviewers Who You Know

Author:Bradley Cooper

“Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.”

Source: This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age

“If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.”

Ifs May Able Christian Depends Claims Over You Affliction Testing

Author:George Wigram

“They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets.”

Ifs Two Country Humor Would Be Funny Jobs Three Drug Dependent Testing Puppets

Author:Marc Maron

“In the future I would like to try other forms of racing, testing Formula cars or single seaters would be good, but again it is finding the time as I am incredibly busy. I don't think I have the time to try any other new sports. I have already cut skiing out of my routine in order to manage the racing and riding relationship. By the looks of things I am going to be busy for quite a few years.”

Thinking Trying Years Looks Would Be Form Order Sports Cutting Car Findings Busy Be Good Manage Routine Formulas Racing Riding Testing Skiing

Author:Liz Halliday

“Downwinders, meaning those people, individuals, communities that were downwind of the nuclear test site. During those years when we were testing atomic bombs above ground, when we watched them for entertainment from the roofs of our high schools, little did we know what was raining down on us, little did we know what would appear years later.”

People Knows Years Littles School Individual Community High School Rain Tests Entertainment Nuclear Bombs Roof Site Testing Atomic Bomb

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age for Medicare for future beneficiaries. Not for those currently receiving or those about to receive. Have serious means testing for high income people. You know Warren Buffett's always complaining about not paying enough taxes. And what I'm complaining about is we're paying for his Medicare. We ought not to be providing these kinds of benefits for millionaires and billionaires.”

“The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.”

Long Said Humor Drug Long Time Alcohol Weed Marijuana Sixty Tested Testing Alcoholics Long Time Ago Funny Marijuana Funny Weed Funny Drug Drug Testing

Author:Bill Lee

“Never stop asking yourself whether you can do things better. Keep testing every aspect of your business to the nth degree, and challenge every one of your assumptions. The tougher you are on yourself now, the tougher your business will be out there in the real world.”

World Real Can Do Challenges Degrees Aspect Asking Assumption Real World Testing

Author:James Caan

“Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.”

Reality Happens Curiosity Bounds Curious Testing

Author:Jim Morrison

“Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...”

Reality Bounds Testing

Author:Jim Morrison

“We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.”

Promise Benefits Senior Testing Diabetes Screening

Author:Mike Rogers

“You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.”

Way Real Can Do Deals Design Program Testing Missiles

Author:Mike Rogers

“I've seen a lot in my life. I've seen a lot of winning. I've seen a lot of testing times. I think when you're tested, you really find out what you're made of.”

Thinking Made Winning Tested Testing

Author:Jerry West

“If I were a weaker man, I would have quit. Something is testing me, I'm not a religious man, so I'm not going to throw the God word around.”

Ifs Men Religious Quitting Word Of God Testing

Author:Grieves

“Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.”

Book Together Reading Class Teacher Pressure Testing Reading Aloud

Author:Katherine Paterson

“I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.”

Country Comfort Western Passages Testing Rite Recklessness Developed Country Rite Of Passage Testing Yourself

Author:Sean Penn

“... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.”

Ifs Knows Answers Principles Cases Produce Tests Fundamentals Testing Fundamental Principles

Author:Brian Kernighan

“Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.”

Different Design Listening Selling Software Testing Selling Something

Author:Kent Beck

“Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.”

Creative Labor Critical Toil Testing Composing Correcting Combining Sifting

Author:T. S. Eliot

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