Tests Quotes

The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.

It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

There's always pressure in test cricket we just need to stick to our toes.

For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.

After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

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

Its easier to get a divorce than pass the driving test. Now its just a basic form-filling exercise.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.

Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.

The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.

Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later.

I've seen the future, and I survived the test of time.

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.

I donated blood today. That's what I call getting an AIDS test.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.