Tests Quotes - Page 25

Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.

Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

You need to identify the steps at which contamination can occur - those are the critical control points. You take steps to make sure that that doesn't happen. And you monitor and evaluate and test to make sure that your system is working properly. And if it's done diligently and done faithfully and monitored carefully, then they're producing safe food. And no astronaut of which I'm aware has ever gotten food poisoning in outer space.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

Together with my advisor, Manuel Blum, I co-invented CAPTCHAs, or computer-generated tests that humans are routinely able to pass but that computers have not mastered (they are the squiggly computer letters that are prevalent across the web).

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.

The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

No matter how sorted you think you are, you will always be surrounded by people who are lost and angry. They will test you time and time again.

Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.

Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth.

My kids were always my test audience. I'd take home the dailies and show them what we'd been filming that day.

If you don't have a test, you won't be able to have a testimony.

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room.

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

I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.