“Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.” ThinkingKnowsChallengesTestsCancerChallenge Yourself Author:Robin Roberts
“I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond.” ThinkingWantBelieveWellsLongIdeasSeemsTalkingAudienceRootsTestsMeetingsStudiosActressesDishesSympathetic Author:Kristen Stewart
“Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test.” IfsThinkingMeanValuesCompanyProductsTestsAddCustomersAcidWishful Thinking Author:Guy Kawasaki
“I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are going through similar situations and one of the great delights of our life actually was sitting around in labs waiting for the results of tests and talking to other people who were waiting to find out whether their cancer numbers were going in the right direction or not.” PeopleThinkingLongWaitingResultsNumbersTalkingSituationOur LivesPeriodsSittingAdvantageTestsCancerDelightLabsRight DirectionSitting AroundLong Periods Of Time Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that I now believe in god and creationism and intelligent design is because of Professor Richard Dawkins. Because when I look at something as complex and intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I don't think that just could've evolved by chance! Professor Richard Dawkins was put there by god to test us, like fossils. And facts.” ThinkingBelieveLooksReasonFactsPastBeautifulReligiousChanceDesignMonthsTestsIntelligentComplexesBelieve In GodProfessorsFossilsIntricateCreationismIntelligent Design Author:Stewart Lee
“I don't think the question is if should we have a shield law. I think the question is what kind of shield law we should have. Yes, I'd like to see a federal shield law, but if and only if it provides genuine safeguards and doesn't green-light prosecutors and judges and litigants from going after the press and getting things to which they should not be entitled. It's not a simple kind of litmus test.” IfsThinkingShouldKindLightLawSimpleJudgingShould HaveTestsGreenPressesGenuineEntitledShieldsProsecutorIfs AndGreen Lights Author:Ted Gup
“I don't think I'd rock a moustache. I don't mind growing a beard. I think it's just a guy thing. We like to nurture a beard, see what we can grow and sort of test our own patience with how long we can let it grow out. However, I'm not really as keen on moustaches as I am on beards.” ThinkingMindLongGuyGrowsGrowingRocksTestsNurtureBeardMoustache Author:James Magnussen
“I think most women we go through a stage in relationship, this is men and women where I'm trusting you, but now I got to test it, I have to make sure your the real deal.” ThinkingMenRealDealsStageMen And WomenTestsTrusting You Author:Gabrielle Dennis
“I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.” ThinkingFeelsFightingAudienceDogTestsScreening 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."” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsStoriesDirectorsTestsScriptsBarsCinemaBest Person Author:Francesca Gregorini
“This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.” ThinkingKnowsTestsFaultsParanoiaDo It Yourself Author:Robert M. Hutchins
“There's a test they can do to determine a baby's gender ahead of time; I think they insert a tiny photo of Leonardo DiCaprio into the uterus, and if the baby punches it, it's a boy.” IfsThinkingCan DoBoysBabyTestsDetermineGenderTinyLeonardoInsertAhead Of TimeUterus Author:Dave Barry
“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” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsArtIdeasDecisionPayAttentionOpinionToo MuchHonestyDangerExpressionPureTestsCaringPay AttentionConsiderationCommentGreat ArtMaking DecisionsNot Caring Author:Marilyn Manson
“If we take two people who have exactly the same sort of lesion or area of damage in the brain and then we do cognitive tests on them, you know, one person might have a very severe deficit in a certain area of thinking and another person might not with the same exact lesion. So there is a lot of differences and you can't just look at one brain and understand the whole picture.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLooksPersonsTwoWholeMightCertainDifferencesBrainAreasTestsDamageSevereDeficitCognitiveWhole Picture Author:H. A. Berlin
“The producers and I first talked about the Big Fish musical, right before we did the first test screening of the movie. I said, "I think there's a Broadway musical here." And really, from that day, we started figuring out how we would do it.” ThinkingFirstsSaidBigsTestsMusicalFishesProducersBroadwayScreeningBig FishBroadway Musical Author:John August
“I think that everybody, even if they had the best high school experience, there was something about high school. Whether you dropped a pass, or whether you flunked the test, or you didn't go to the prom.” IfsThinkingSchoolHigh SchoolTestsPromSchool Experience Author:Neal H. Moritz
“I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantLongMomentsMy OwnCareersTestsPerformancesRepeats Author:Jessie J
“I think the way you can tell if a guy and girl are in a serious relationship is whether or not they have black and white pictures of themselves together. That's the real test. Because it takes effort to get nice black and white photos. If you've gone that far, there's no turning back.” IfsThinkingWayRealTogetherGuyGirlBlackWhiteEffortGoneNiceSeriousTestsBlack And WhiteNo Turning BackSerious Relationship Author:Aaron Karo
“I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.” ThinkingTestsWho You AreBest FriendshipTest Of Time Author:Steve Pavlina
“If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it.” IfsThinkingMayDoneWholeShowsYouthDutyTestsIllPainfulSpreadPerformingAbandonRulersSolidarityAssociatesShrinksChamberRevoltSuitable Author:Bertrand Russell
“I took my AlDS test. You start reflecting... You start thinking about every nasty, skank-ass... It's like the movie Scrooge, and the Ghost of Pussy Past comes.” ThinkingPastTestsGhostAssNastyReflectingPussyScroogeSkanks Author:Chris Rock
“You might be a redneck if you think the O.J. trial was the big Sunkist and Minutemaid taste test.” IfsThinkingBigsMightTasteTestsTrialsRedneckYou Might Be A Redneck If Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise daughter I think.” ThinkingPartyTypeDrugDaughterTestsSurpriseBirthdayBirthday Party Author:Dave Attell
“I never liked the extended cut personally because I like...we spend a lot of time figuring out our final cut. We test and test and test it, whatnot. Having said that, there's one sequence we're adding back into the movie for the extended cut that is pretty amazing that I think people are going to love.” PeopleThinkingSaidCuttingTestsFinalsSequence Author:Nicholas Stoller
“But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.” ThinkingMistakeTestsMiracleChemistryTestimonyMy Mistakes Author:T. D. Jakes
“I would agree with [criminal suspects being subjected to a DNA test after arrest]...if that's one step closer to finding out who has (committed a crime), then I think we should do it.” IfsThinkingShouldStepsCrimeFindingsTestsAgreeCommittedCriminalsSuspectsDna Author:Erin Brady
“Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the lifetimes of many generation; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of thee survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonably practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our arm-chairs of an afternoon-the most favoured alternative method.” ThinkingMenLongMatterFoundSoundCommonGenerationsArmsSurvivalOrdinaryTestsMethodLifetimeMarketingDrawingPracticalsTheeAlternativesDistinctionSubtleChairsAfternoonStood UpSurvival Of The FittestConnexion Author:J. L. Austin
“I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human endeavors, but I think the methodology of our science - using it to postulate and to use the proper approach of creating falsifiable hypotheses and then testing them to see if they ring true, and then progressing by finding the anomalies to our theoretical structure, and then improving our theoretical structure to take care and test the anomalies - is the way to go, because that helps us discover what the universe.is all about and our relationship to it.” IfsThinkingWayHumansHelpingUseCareUniverseCoursesMistakeProgressFailingFindingsApproachCreatingToolsTestsStructureTake CareRingsEndeavorOur RelationshipMarvelousImprovingHypothesisTestingTheoreticalMethodologyAnomalies Author:Edgar Mitchell
“We have a tendency to always test people's love. 'I want to see how badly I have to behave before you'll leave me. Because I don't really think you want me anyhow.'” PeopleThinkingWantTestsTendenciesBehaveWant MeLeaving MeYou Want Me Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.” ThinkingNeedsAttentionHabitTestsWestNuclearGet AwayRegimesIsolatedMaximumProvocationNeed To Get Away Author:Brian Reynolds Myers
“When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.” ThinkingStillsTodayMovingYouthTestsTest Of Time Author:Michelle Gomez
“The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.” IfsThinkingDoeMomentsLife IsTestsGet BetterHopeless Author:Mos Def
“Sarah Palin is an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she only was governor for what, two years. I don`t think she passed that test.” ThinkingYearsTwoTestsBackgroundsAttractiveCandidatesTwo YearsGovernorsPalin Author:Dick Cheney
“In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesEnoughLawHappenedStudentsSucceedAchievementStandardsToughTestsDrivenIdeologyGapsOld PeopleFrameworkAchievement Gap Author:Diane Ravitch
“I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.” ThinkingFirstsParticularTestsCandidatesDemographicsNevada Author:Lucy Flores
“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.” ThinkingMenTestsEvery ManFreedom Of SpeechFreedom Of ThoughtMartyrdom Author:Samuel Johnson
“I think I did a couple of test commercials that didn't even make it on the air. That's how little I had really done. I knew almost nothing about the camera. In fact, I actually did know nothing about the camera.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesDoneFactsAirCoupleTestsCameras Author:Mary Steenburgen
“I don't really know. I think the first test is when you're very little and you fart, and you laugh at it and so do your friends and family. I knew before I was funny I was very annoying so I have that covered. I think it was because I was not very good in school I used humor as a defense mechanism. When I started doing plays and stuff at school I decided that I was going to keep doing it until someone tells me to stop and get a real job.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsLittlesRealPlaySchoolJobsUsedStuffLaughingDecidedTestsVery GoodDefenseCoveredAnnoyingMechanismFamily And FriendsFartReal JobsDefense Mechanisms Author:Joel McHale
“I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.” ThinkingTestsOriginalsSmellPassingPassingsTranslationsScholarly Author:Christian Wiman
“It was great and I had fun that day even though I was so sort of pleased when it was over to get through it. I didn't realize at the time that usually they screen test a number of actresses for the part, but they only tested me. So I think they knew then they wanted me to do it, and I wish they told me because I wouldn't have been so nervous. That was quite funny.” ThinkingHas BeensWantedFunWishRealizingNumbersTestsActressesScreensNervousTestedHad FunI Had Fun Author:Gemma Arterton
“I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes the diagnosis based on some standard tests and also on clinical impression and skill.” ThinkingChildrenParentTalkingTeacherSkillsStandardsGoldTestsImpressionDiagnosisInteractingClinicalsGold StandardAstuteClinicians Author:Gerald Fischbach
“I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever it is they're doing. We ill-prepare them. Especially with the major sports. What you see is this cycle of entitlement that gets thrown their way, so the kid who is in junior high and hasn't finished his test, but still gets to play because he is an athlete, fails the test and still gets to play because they're an athlete, gets to get away with not doing chores at home because they've got practice.” ThinkingWayStillsPlayMomentsHomeKidsSportsPracticeFailingMajorsPicksTestsBallsAthleteIllFinishedKicksThrownGet AwayCyclesJuniorsEntitlementChoresJunior High Author:John Amaechi
“I guess if there was a desert island scenario and I only could take one font with me, I guess it would be Helvetica, though it has it's limitations, I think it's incredibly versatile and gets the job done and I also think it's one of the typefaces that will really survive the test of time beyond the next several decades if not into the next century.” IfsThinkingDoneWould BeJobsNextCenturyTestsDecadesLimitationDesertIslandsScenariosVersatileGet The Job DoneTest Of TimeFontsTypefacesHelvetica Author:Khoi Vinh
“On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade - they didn't particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test, and to explore them, with respect to Star Wars, I think casts light not just on the saga of our time, but also on everything about our culture.” ThinkingWellsKindWarLightSeemsAbleCultureThreeStarsReflectionTestsCastsExplanationOur TimePhenomenonEchoesChamberSagaActivateCascadeBandwagon Author:Cass Sunstein
“I think daily life is where the lessons come in - that's where the tests and the growth come in.” ThinkingLife IsGrowthLessonsTestsDaily Life Author:Marianne Williamson
“I think it is appropriate when you look at the test that you have to meet to be commander-in-chief for Americans to be thoughtful about, you know, who has the experience and the approach that is best likely to work.” ThinkingKnowsLooksApproachTestsChiefsThoughtfulAppropriateCommandersCommander In Chief Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think these debates coming up are going to be a test of who the American people like better, who they want in their living room more, who they think is better capable of being president of the United States.” PeopleThinkingWantStatesPresidentUnitedRoomsUnited StatesCapableTestsDebateLiving Room Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Everyone knows innovation involves developing unique understanding of a market, thinking expansively to develop a solution, and then finding a way to test rigorously and adapt quickly.” ThinkingKnowsWayUnderstandingFindingsUniqueSolutionsTestsInnovationDeveloping Author:Scott D. Anthony
“Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.” ThinkingNeedsHumansSelfMatterReasonEnoughHelpingSituationMoralCasesSpecialHuman NatureParticularDutyJudgmentTestsRegardFocusedAriseAgentsExceptionPreferenceTemptedMaximsCanonMoral Judgment Author:Allen W. Wood
“I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things that have come out of that. There has been a drug test policy that was been implemented that got the blessings of both the Players Association and MLB. They are trying to maintain the integrity of this sport and trying to get it back, but that cloud I think will hang over a little longer.” ThinkingTryingLittlesHas BeensSportsPlayerPolicyIntegrityBlessingDrugTestsBaseballCloudsAssociationSuspicionPositive ThingsMlbHang Over Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.