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“I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.”

Ifs Knows Want Stills Light Form Dark Rooms Study Painting Tests Paint Checks Twilight Resonance Dark Room

Author:Will Barnet

“I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.”

Believe May Form Moral Teach Teaching Stage Tests Endure Casts Currents Dramatic Instruction Righteous Obliged Mold Simulate

Book:Twenty Years at Hull House

Source: Twenty Years at Hull House

“Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing - to be sharp, yet open.”

Want Mind Form Tests Difficulty Hypothesis Slides Noticing Groove

Author:Bernd Heinrich

“Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is the same as to say that it is merely a word which is powerful with us, and not the wide and true notion of what the word means. But we must define the true import of words, and not be slaves to syllables; for democracy in form is not necessarily people-power in fact, but power perhaps of a few, who cajole the many and so lead and use the people for their own ends.”

People Men Trying Kind Mean Ends Facts Use Form Powerful Mistake Democracy Tests Slave Notion Wide Democracies Have Imports Syllables Be A Slave Try Me

Author:James Vila Blake

“problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I `do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once we release Paul's justification-language from the burden of having to describe `how someone becomes a Christian', however, this is simply no longer a problem. There is no danger of imagining that Christian faith is after all a surrogate `work', let alone a substitute form of moral righteousness. Faith is the badge of covenant membership, not something someone `performs' as a kind of initiation test.”

“The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.”

Mind Film Form Conscience Ideals Tests England Cinema

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.”

Wells Two Form Process Environment Produce Depends Evolution Tasks Tests Variety Schemes Simplest Generator

Author:Herbert Simon

“A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.”

Art Age Form Turns Fall Pieces Draws Concepts Tests Convince Works Of Art Artificial Pale Verification

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.”

World May Different Problem Form Life Is Generations This World Tests Trials

Author:Winston Churchill

“Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.”

Children School Form Worst Identity Tests Commit Score Theft Reducing Test Scores Identity Theft

Author:Stephen Covey

“Form is burden. Sometimes being part of the system enslaves the mind and greatly limits the imagination by enslaving it to form. Form is a burden to the mind that sees no limits. Form is a prison for the soul who sees possibilities outside the lines and wishes to test them.”

Mind Soul Sometimes Form Wish Imagination Lines Possibility Limits Tests Prison Burden

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.”

Men Doe Two Form Young Universe Strong Parent Realizing Perfect Love Is Failing Tests Infinite Stupidity Young Man Approval Caution No Fear Unsure Perfect Love Young Ladies

Author:Albert Einstein

“But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.”

Art Form Simple Objects Tests Contemplation Works Of Art Categories Realistic Persist Idealism Idealistic

Author:Herbert Read

“I think Test cricket is the ultimate form of cricket.”

Thinking Form Tests Ultimate Cricket

Author:Suresh Raina

“Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.”

“I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on 'Space Invaders,' in the form of quarters, of course.”

Firsts Remember Form Courses Games Space Audience Tests Dating Quarters Lots Of Money Remember When Invaders Pinball Space Invaders

Author:John C. Reilly

“I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.”

People Thinking Should Years Has Beens Art Hard Form Given Parent Millions Capable Draws Tests Drivers Being A Parent

Author:Maurice Sendak

“We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?”

Doe Form Tests

Author:David Mamet

“Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.”

Way Doe Made Two Stories Problem Seems Form Reading Realizing Imagination Natural Silence Four Imagine Shapes Findings Tests Bases Absolutes Finals Defined Orange

Author:Truman Capote

“In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.”

“In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.”

“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

“Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually came in the form of a test. He told me fate liked to be worshiped. It liked to see us fall on out knees before it offered to help us up..." ♥”

Thinking Kind Helping Form Fall Differences Fate Tests Knees Making A Difference You Can Make A Difference Lena Holoway

Author:Lauren Oliver

“To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.”

“Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.”

Persons Self Form Motivation Sports Tests Competition Meaningful Winner Medal Softball

Author:Al Oerter

“The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical race, but the origin of genetic segregation. The test of species-formation is whether, when two forms meet, they interbreed and merge, or whether they keep distinct.”

Two Problem Form Science Differences Levels Race Tests Fundamentals Species Appearance Arise Segregation Formation Genetics Origin Of Species

Book:Darwin's Finches

Source: Darwin's Finches

“To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.”

Form Impossible Worst Racism Gun Tests Gun Control Inexpensive

Author:Roy Innis

“The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.”

Ifs Way Ideas Character Form Quality Capable Tests Surprise Rounds Sentences Factors Crafts Desert Flats Surprising Curves Convincing One Sentence Micawber

Author:E. M. Forster

“Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form”

Form Taxes Tests Income Taxation Filling Income Tax Irs Deductions

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.”

War Form Force Numbers Principles Democracy Trouble Blood Victory Tests Army Sacred Majority Bottom Civil War Substitutes Shed Opposing Pacific Orators Majority Rule

Book:Men of Destiny (Ppr)

Source: Men of Destiny (Ppr)

“Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.”

Moments Character Form Our Lives Habit Built Direct Tests Trials Daily Life Routine Commonplace Workshops Good Habits Great Moments

Author:Delbert L. Stapley

“According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating in other forms of enriched activities.”

Children Form Class Students Activity Research Tests Chess Engaged Score Participating Test Scores

Author:Susan Polgar

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