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“Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in our brain, which then flow throughout our body, making us feel good. These neurotransmitters stop flowing when we use negative words.”

Feels Self Use Body Brain Prove Negative Flow Tests Wave Feel Good Release Affirmation Hormones Self Talk Positive Words Endorphins Positive Self Negative Words Neurotransmitters

Author:Ruth Fishel

“I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.”

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Author:Stephen Daldry

“When we feel an obligation to test the things we say and to find the boundaries within which what we say has validity, then we are contributing to a real inner consolidation of our human feeling for existence.”

Feels Humans Real Feelings Existence Tests Boundaries Obligation Contributing Validity Consolidation

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.”

Feels Real Love Is Tests Hardest Tests Of Love

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.”

Ifs Feels Wells Home Would Be America Half Democracy Tests Safety Well Being Dozen Unbelievers

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.”

Ifs Feels Tests Virtuous

Book:Hooked

Source: Hooked

“Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.”

Want Feels Wells Character Together Suffering Strong Interest Novel Hell Successful Land Tests Affair Being Successful Divided

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

“It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?”

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Author:Arsene Wenger

“Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.”

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Author:Rose Macaulay

“Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.”

Feels Trying Ends Feelings Common Emotion Tests Everyday Bridges Performing Melody Exhilarating Test Of Time Acropolis Exhilarating Feeling

Author:Bradley Joseph

“Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain is not. Yet the two of them are inseparable because true love cannot bear separation.”

Feels Should Two Sometimes Pain Love Is Bears Tests Everyday Separation Inseparable Love And Pain

Author:Michael Robotham

“What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.”

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Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests for a sequence of consecutive values n=2,3,.. up to, say, n=100. If the result of at least one test were negative, the hypothesis would prove to be false; otherwise our confidence in the hypothesis would increase, and we should feel encouraged to attempt establishing the hypothesis, instead of trying to construct a counterexample.”

Ifs Feels Should Trying Science Values Results Special Prove Negative Tests Machines Increase Mathematics Permit Constructs Hypothesis Sequence Consecutive

Author:Alfred Tarski

“To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.”

Ifs Knows Life Feels Made Growth Mistake Worry Too Much Tests Personal Growth Investing Looking Good Made A Mistake How You Feel Worrying Too Much

Author:Ray Dalio

“My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am I just fulfilling my own expectations - or even worse, somebody else's?”

Feels Writing Doe Jobs Moving Fun My Own Expectations Tests Fulfilling

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I can write for weeks or months sometimes and edit it down to a song. I feel like it's a piece of music that will hopefully stand the test of time and hopefully capture a moment in history if I'm doing it correctly and honestly.”

Ifs Feels Writing I Can Sometimes Moments Song Pieces Week Months Tests Honestly Hopefully Capture Edits Test Of Time

Author:Macklemore

“At the end of the day, people (customers) don't necessarily buy into what you do; they buy into why you do it. People buy Apple because they love the Apple brand - what it stands for - they feel proud to be associated with that brand. What makes Google or Virgin or any of these 'superior' brands what they are is that they have a mission to change the world. Those are the kinds of companies that will endure the test of time.”

People World Feels Kind Ends Company Proud Tests Endure Missions Customers Superiors Brands Apples Changing The World The End Of The Day Google Virgins Test Of Time

Author:Omar Samra

“For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.”

Feels Intellectual Tests Jew Uneasy

Author:Paul Johnson

“Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.”

“As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong, he is himself all wrong. He does not know that upon the proof of all the others depends the proof of his own. Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. I do not mean the sentimental statement that all men are brothers, but that one must feel the oneness of human life.”

Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind

“I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.”

Thinking Feels Fighting Audience Dog Tests Screening

Author:Brian Helgeland

“The test for me, when I read other people's scripts, is whether I feel like there's something about me that is the best person to tell this story. I have a pretty high bar for myself. There's a lot of scripts that I read and think, "Oh, this is great, but I think there are 50 other directors who could bring this to the cinema."”

People Thinking Feels Persons Stories Directors Tests Scripts Bars Cinema Best Person

Author:Francesca Gregorini

“I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get their opinions before making decisions, or if you pay too much attention to what other people say about what you create, that it really pollutes your expression. I think that I'm much more about pure art and honesty and expressing exactly what I feel, and not caring so much what anyone says. However, I do respect, and I do pay attention to everyone's comments. And I do take them into consideration. But I don't base my decisions by it”

“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?'”

Feels I Can Two Important Home Waiting Morning Ready Tests Wake Up Stomach Afternoon Monday Friday Pits Monday Morning Friday Afternoon

Author:Charles Schumer

“The test in life nowadays is just trying to keep yourself charged up with enough good feeling. It's like, "OK what am I going to do to feel really good today?" Not like, some chick or a drink.”

Feels Trying Enough Feelings Today Drink Tests Chicks Good Feeling

Author:Mos Def

“Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.”

Feels Wells Play Games Levels Activity Skills Demand Tests Difficulty Video Escalating

Book:The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

Source: The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel

“In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.”

“When you see a Tibetan doctor taking care of a patient, first of all, of course there are many wonderful medicines that come from [there in the past] 2,000 years. But this doctor is usually so attentional, so kind, and so careful of what you really feel and then [he sees] you as a human being instead of running you through some quick tests. So that itself, the trust and confidence in someone that cares for you is of course so invigorating... that someone cares.”

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Author:Matthieu Ricard

“One night my son was downstairs studying, and he had been up so late all that week, and my husband said, "I feel so sorry for him." I said, "Look, if he's going to become a surgeon" - he is studying to be a doctor - "he's going to have his hard times. I feel sorry for him too, but if he lives in this world he's going to have more hard times. He's going to stay up some more nights." I think we can't shield them from the hard times, even though we'd like to. I say to the children that I teach and to my own - I can't test the ground for you and tell you that's a safe step there.”

“Basically my new litmus test for people is, do they make me hear about a blow job they gave in the first ten minutes of us talking? And if they didn't then I can feel excited.”

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Author:Lena Dunham

“I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues. If I did, I would give students the tools to take the tests but not spend an inordinate amount of time on test prep nor on 'teaching to the test.' If the students, or their parents, want drill in testing, they'd have to go elsewhere. As a professional, my most important obligation is to teach the topic, skills, and methods in ways that I feel are intellectually legitimate.”

“Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope an audience responds the same way. It's very important to have the electrical circuit made, but I don't have control over how people feel when they flip the switch. So the whole idea of marketing research and test screenings is just foreign to me.”

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Author:Jim Jarmusch

“It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great.”

Feels Littles Stuff Tests Vegan How You Feel Tasty

Author:Grace Slick

“I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.”

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Author:Adora Svitak

“How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you haven't studied for and you aren't wearing any clothes. And you've left your wallet at home. When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.”

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.”

“Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over”

“It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.”

Source: Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

“You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.”

Knows Way Needs Feels Stills I Can Sometimes Know How Tests Angry

Author:Jodi Picoult

“People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.”

People Thinking Feels Littles Reality Chance Concerned Tests Sacred Impact Handle Afterlife

Author:Kurt Cobain

“Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [...] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves -- that we are nice.”

Knows World Feels Believe Form Stars Sound Nice Paper Cat Gold Tests Praise Feel Good Satisfying Our Relationship Purring Reinforcement Purring Cats

Book:A celebration of cats

Source: A celebration of cats

“The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.”

Feels Long Enough Pain Can Do Worst Theory Tests Wounds Heal Time Heals Time Heals All Time Heals All Wounds

Author:Jose Saramago

“I sometimes feel like life is just one big test to see how long we can survive.”

Feels Long Sometimes Bigs Life Is Tests Just One

Author:Jessica Sorensen

“It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is more invested, it shows. If you're with the wrong person, it feels like too much work. But if you're unhappy more than you're happy, it's not the right relationship for you.”

Ifs Feels Wells Persons Shows Challenges Deals Too Much Easier Tests Unhappy Right Person Wrong Person Too Much Work

Author:Susane Colasanti

“The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.”

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Author:Joan Chen

“Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.”

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Author:Joan Benoit

“But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe' or to anything? Has it any reference to electricity? or does it stand on the very foundation of matter-mass or inertia? then we feel the need of tests, whether they be comets or nebulae or laboratory experiments or bold questions as to the truth of received opinions.”

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Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his own head, a set of options and imaginative alternatives. His role is that of a scientist, whether on safari or in his laboratory, faced with an unknown terrain or subject. All he can do is to devise various hypotheses and test them against the facts.”

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Author:J. G. Ballard

“Not only is [a half marathon] a good test for the marathon, it is also good for those who feel they were just getting going in a 10K and are physically and mentally primed to go further. A half marathon is a good test of your endurance, without the physical punishment of going the full 26.2 miles. More so even than the 10K, it will teach you about patience, pacing, and how to negotiate a wider range of physical and emotional cycles.”

Inspirational Feels Half Teach Emotional Tests Miles Punishment Range Cycles Endurance Marathon Pacing Half Marathons Getting Going

Book:Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line

Source: Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line