“Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than youre likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!” ThinkingWorldYearsHas BeensScienceFoundNaturalAnimalKnownThousandTenTestsFilledCancerCoffeeCupsChemicalsTestedCoffee CupPesticides Author:Bruce Ames
“For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.” PeopleIfsYearsInterestDemocracyConditionsMediaOughtFitModelsIdealsTestsWesternAbstractConformAdoptedKoreaSingaporePhilippinesTaiwanWestern Media Author:Goh Chok Tong
“Theo Wanne has done it again!!!!!! He has brought a new dimension in mouthpieces that will not only stand the test of time, but will be a benchmark mouthpiece for many, many years to come! The bar has been raised.” YearsHas BeensDoneTestsRaisedBarsDimensionsTest Of TimeMouthpiece Author:Jeff Coffin
“Dhoni is one of the greatest captain I have ever seen. Dhoni's record is praiseworthy. Twenty-two Test wins is not a small achievement. And the success against Australia has come against the backdrop of the not-so-good times he went through in the last two years” YearsTwoLastsWinningRecordsAchievementTestsTwentiesGood TimesAustraliaTwo YearsCaptainsPraiseworthyBackdropTwenty TwoDhoni Author:Sourav Ganguly
“I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."” YearsKindSaidEndsSchoolRememberNamesFeltStupidTestsCrisisStuckCleverExistentialThey SaidBizarreExistential Crisis Author:Kit Harington
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsAbleDesireBeliefFeltDifficultActingAchieveCoupleSingingTestsEncouragementBlowProfessionScreensEndlessRejectionRomeUnfairSlidesFaith In YourselfStaggeringAvidReversal Author:Sophia Loren
“I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.” YearsSeemsPastTestsSpendingMore TimeCricketOver The PastFiancee Author:Kevin Pietersen
“But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsSchoolThreeCasesTeacherStupidLowsExpectationsTestsThree YearsYou Re StupidLow ExpectationsI Was Stupid Author:Robert Sternberg
“I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.” YearsEndsThreeHoursEmotionDisciplineSixTestsStudiosGrantedAwardsStrictForeignersAdmission Author:Ralph Allen
“The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace. It simply observed a decline in the number of 22-year-olds and projected that this demographic trend would result in a huge shortfall. This could be termed the supply-side theory of labor market analysis. But making labor market projections without considering the demand side of the equation doesn't pass the laugh test with experts in the field.” YearsIndividualSidesResultsNumbersLaughingStudyFieldsTheoryHugeDemandLaborTestsScientistAnalysisExpertsTrendsDeclineEngineersConsideringEquationsProjectionMarketplaceDemographicsScientists And Engineers Author:Howard Wolpe
“Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.” IfsGivingYearsHardProblemRunningKidsGivenGroupsMinutesGiving UpTestsMathSecondsGiven UpMath Problems Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.” YearsDoeArtStatesEnoughRunningSchoolStuffClassFourCollegeLuckyPhotographyTestsGradesFour YearsGreyHippieArt SchoolBlah Author:Kathleen Hanna
“My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I have heard it said that the success of a work abroad is the best test of its enduring value. I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy; but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years.” YearsHas BeensSaidBookCountryLastsValuesNamesLanguageDoubtHeardOughtStandardsTestsEnglandEndureJudgedAutobiographyTrustworthyForeign Countries Book:The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29:
“The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.” YearsHappensNextTestsScholar Author:Milton Friedman
“The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up.” YearsKindCountryPoliticalCommunityMilitaryExampleWasteYears AgoTestsDiedCleanEnvironmentalAbsenceGasNervesValleysSheepPollutionSkullsOur CommunityReservationsPolitical Will Author:Winona LaDuke
“Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.” NeedsYearsStillsLyingDifficultCreativeConditionsOrdinaryTestsTwentiesSimplicityAccomplishAccessProfessionalismCreative Work Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I went to law school which is a 3-year program in the US that is focused primarily on memorizing certain doctrines and taking exams that test whether you can apply those doctrines to help prepare for the bar exam. If you are lucky, you get a few classes where you are encouraged to think more critically and read critical texts rather than just casebooks, and perhaps write a paper that is not a legal memo or brief.” IfsThinkingWritingYearsHelpingSchoolLawCertainClassLuckyPaperProgramTestsCriticalFocusedBarsDoctrineWhere You AreExamLaw SchoolLucky YouMemorizingMemosBar Exam Author:Dean Spade
“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.” PeopleKnowsYearsLittlesSchoolIndividualCommunityHigh SchoolRainTestsEntertainmentNuclearBombsRoofSiteTestingAtomic Bomb Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“A lot of the album is made of love songs I've written over the past three or four years that have lasted the test of time. It's probably the thing that connects the songs together other than the sound of my vocals.” YearsMadeTogetherPastSongThreeSoundFourWrittenTestsAlbumsFour YearsVocalOver The PastTest Of Time Author:Vance Joy
“You get two weeks after you do a shoe where you can test whether it's good or not - if you're going to like it in 20 years. Then I know that it's going to be my shoe for a long time. That doesn't happen very often, but it happens.” IfsKnowsYearsLongTwoHappensWeekLong TimeTestsShoesTwo Weeks Author:Manolo Blahnik
“Mark my words.It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” IfsWorldYearsSaidStatesAmericaRememberGuyPresidentUnitedWatchesUnited StatesMonthsSixStandingTestsMarkCrisisInternationalBrilliantBarackSenatorsUnited States Of AmericaSix MonthsThis GuyMettleJohn Kennedy Author:Joe Biden
“I travel a lot with my students. We go on the road and even learn about things like doing your laundry and managing your time. And maybe that's not on the test at the end of the year, but it's in the test of life and that's why my classroom is successful.” YearsEndsSuccessfulStudentsGoes OnTestsClassroomLaundry Author:Rafe Esquith
“In terms of driving, I actually don't have a driver's license, and it's kind of ridiculous. I've lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and just have somehow managed to avoid taking the test, which I did last week and failed. I couldn't find the honker. I felt bad about it, but it's just a little bit embarrassing, I guess, to be in this film and not have a license.” YearsKindLittlesLastsFilmFeltBitsTermWeekCoupleLittle BitTestsRidiculousDrivingLos AngelesDriversEmbarrassingLicense Author:Imogen Poots
“Although I considered putting my eight years of Boy Scout experience and love for our nation to the test by joining the military, I did not want to put myself in a position where I might be commanded to take the life of another, and quickly ended my flirtation with military service.” WantYearsMightNationsBoysMilitaryPositionTestsAnd LoveEightJoiningFlirtationMilitary ServiceBoy ScoutJoining The Military Author:Ashton Kutcher
“The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test.” YearsWantedCultureDealsMoralMillionsProtectYears AgoTestsSellsInvestmentProfitClientsBankingAdequateBankersInvestment BankingRetailing Author:Charlie Munger
“Sony and Nickelodeon knew they wanted to create a TV show that was a platform for a band they would have for Sony. They knew what they wanted, and it took two years of auditions and screen tests and countless people coming in and out the door until they finally settled on the four of us.” PeopleYearsTwoShowsWantedFourDoorsTvsBandTestsScreensTwo YearsPlatformsTv ShowsAuditionsSonyNickelodeon Author:James Maslow
“Anytime you test for a TV show, you have that bit of squeamishness entering into it because they lock you in for a number years.” YearsShowsBitsNumbersTvsTestsLocksTv ShowsEntering Author:Sam Huntington
“I just had a baby girl. My daughter weighed 27 pounds. She was 3 years old. She was delivered to me by way of the court system and a blood test.” WayYearsGirlBloodBabyDaughterTestsCourtPoundsMy DaughterBaby GirlCourt SystemBlood Tests Author:Donnell Rawlings
“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
“Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. When you have someone like Cheney who talks about "endless war" or war that might last fifty years, he could be Big Brother. You have Bush incessantly going on about the evil ones.” WritingYearsLooksWarBigsRealityMightLastsEvilBrotherTestsEndlessThese DaysFiftySatiricalIncessantlyEndless War Author:John Pilger
“The intelligence community, in particular the FBI, have been sounding alarms about this for more than a year. So to argue that suddenly we have to do this because of the San Bernardino case doesn't really pass the straight-face test. I mean, they've been talking about this. And to say, well, it will only apply to this case, that just - that doesn't wash. This is a major piece of public policy.” YearsWellsMeanHas BeensFacesCommunityTalkingCasesPiecesPolicyParticularMajorsTestsArguingAlarmsFbiPublic PolicyIntelligence CommunityStraight Face Author:Angus King
“As I noted to my colleagues in the Roberts' hearings, in a year between 80 percent to 90 percent of the children in America diagnosed with Down's Syndrome will be killed in the womb simply because they have a positive genetic test which can be wrong, and is often wrong, but they would have a positive genetic test for Down's Syndrome and they will be killed.America is poorer because of such a policy.” YearsChildrenAmericaPolicyPercentTestsHearingColleaguesWombSyndromes Author:Sam Brownback
“It was pretty fun [auditioning on the Millennium Falcon], because I enjoyed the material a lot. Last year I read for the directors, then came to England and did a test on the Falcon, then came back and did a couple more screen tests in Los Angeles.” YearsLastsFunMaterialsCoupleDirectorsTestsEnglandScreensEnjoyedLos AngelesLast YearMillenniumFalcon Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“In the studio we spend a lot of time working our what materials will work best and also last. We do tests and come back to them years later to see how they are still performing, and this leads our decisions.” YearsStillsLastsDecisionMaterialsTestsStudiosPerforming Author:Patricia Piccinini
“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.” FeelsYearsFirstsHumansKindCareRunningPastCoursesHuman BeingsWonderfulDoctorsTestsMedicinePatientCarefulTibetanInvigoratingCare For You Author:Matthieu Ricard
“We did some camera tests blacking it out, we made a prosthetic with a gap in it, but that made me look like a donkey, so I vetoed that right away. And then I just finally called my dentist and said, 'You know, I've had this implant for 20 years. What's it involve in taking it out?' And he said, 'It's actually not that big a deal. We can do that.' So we took it out and I was toothless for three months, for the run of the movie [ The Hangover] .I take my job very seriously.” KnowsYearsLooksMadeSaidBigsRunningJobsThreeCan DoDealsMonthsTestsCamerasGapsThree MonthsDentistHangoverDonkeyImplantsProstheticsToothless Author:Ed Helms
“The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.” YearsKindLittlesReasonGovernmentInterestSimpleFailingSourceCostWasteBenefitsProjectsTestsVotePressureCourtHeavyCampaignsSupremeOptimisticPrimariesContributionSupreme CourtLegislatorsBeing OptimisticContributorsPrimary SourceCampaign Contributions Author:Robert H. Frank
“In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was already a few years advanced because I started school at the age of three-and-a-half rather than six and my grades moved up accordingly. In America, they start you at school at six because the grades are different. I had to take a test and they didn't know what to do with me. It wasn't that I was any smarter; I had just started younger. All of a sudden I was jumped from eighth to tenth grade. They said I was very smart, but I was only smart in languages, really.” KnowsWayYearsSaidDifferentAgeSchoolAmericaThreeLanguageHalfFourSixSmartTestsMovedGradesSmarterThey SaidSchoolingVery SmartJamaica Author:Grace Jones
“I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the worst public schools in Baltimore, with kids most people would write off because of their backgrounds. But, when I set high expectations, at the end of the day, these kids went from scoring at the bottom on standardized tests, to scoring at the top, despite their unfortunate circumstances.” PeopleWritingYearsEndsFactsKidsSchoolThreeWorstCircumstancesExpectationsTestsBottomBackgroundsDespiteThe End Of The DayThree YearsUnfortunateGroundedPublic SchoolBaltimoreUnshakableHigh ExpectationsUnshakable FaithUnfortunate Circumstances Author:Michelle Rhee
“Run a test. Give a 5-year-old a printed book and an iPad and see what happens. That 5-year-old is going to go right for the iPad. They're not intimidated by it. They know what to do with it. They'll start searching around. And in a children's e-book, you can have links to kid-safe encyclopedia. So if they click on the lion, it takes them to Africa and tells them all about lions. So now, the e-book is educational.” IfsKnowsGivingYearsChildrenBookHappensRunningKidsSafeTestsEducationalLinksLionsPrintedIntimidatedClicksIpadsEncyclopediaPrinted Books Author:Dan Poynter
“And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.” WritingYearsTwoHelpingLiteratureCreativeHonorTestsI RealizedJournalismTwo YearsGraduatesCreative WritingAces Author:Bob Schieffer
“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.” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsHas BeensArtHardFormGivenParentMillionsCapableDrawsTestsDriversBeing A Parent Author:Maurice Sendak
“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.” FeelsYearsChildrenStillsAgeLinesResultsTestsRealising Author:Adora Svitak
“As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.” YearsLooksPainLordPromiseTestsTrialsFaithfulCrushFiftyRecallsMinistryProvenGodlyChristian Ministry Author:David Wilkerson
“I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.” IfsYearsReasonSchoolLeftUnderstandingTestsNot InterestedDyslexicSchoolwork Author:Richard Branson
“Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.” MenYearsArtThreeOpportunitySkillsTestsDragonsSlaying Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansImportantIdeasTodayReadingImaginationLordFantasyEternalNewsHappeningsTestsRingsTouchingImaginativeArchetypeHuman ImaginationTest Of Time Author:Clive Barker
“When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.” IfsMenYearsBelieveMayIdeasLife IsFightingWishFreedomTheoryTruth IsTestsUltimateConstitutionTradeSalvationCompetitionRateAcceptedExperimentsUpsetImperfectFreedom Of SpeechProphecyFree TradeSupreme Court JusticeWagers Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me.” KnowsYearsFirstsIdeasMatterSpaceCareersStudentsAdventurePaperSittingRainWindowDecidedTestsSightArchitectureDrawingCoffeeCupsAlternativesFourthDesksCapturedNursingCoffee CupTeddyCruzAptitudeAptitude TestFourth Year Author:Rebecca Solnit
“New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.” YearsCoursesTestsHolidayResolutionNew YearAcquaintanceNew Years EveHappy New YearNew Year's ResolutionsNew Years ResolutionNew Year New StartHappy New Year EveNew Years Eve InspirationalFunny Happy New YearGreat YearHappy New Year LoveNew Year New MeOld YearNew Years Eve LoveNew Years ToastFunny New YearsFunny New Years EveFunny New Years ResolutionNew Year FriendshipNew Years HolidaySpiritual New YearNew Years Eve Greetings Author:Jay Leno