Quotes About Scrutiny

My private life is always under scrutiny. Each and every action is analysed and re-analysed.

I can understand being in such a public place and having your intimate private life examined.

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

Some of the more intensive scrutiny when I was first starting out definitely used to be tough to handle; I was only a teenager, yet was being analysed in newspapers world over, often by people who already had a strong opinion about my privilege before hearing me play.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look.

A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.

And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.

I was always critiquing my work. I let everybody else around - producers, directors, other actors - they give the nod of approval or the praise. Because I tried to always bring the best, so even if they were happy with it, I was still scrutinizing it.

Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.

I believe you've got to do your due diligence.

What I'm saying is it is our responsibility to exercise due diligence, to ask the tough questions, to get the evidence before we make those very costly decisions about how and when and where our military is used.

Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display.

I feel like a lot of people disregard the scrutiny that people like us are under.

I'm all about dissecting everything.

I have an eye for detail.

The eyes of all people are upon us.

When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.

Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any man who is afraid to have his doctrine investigated is not only a coward but a hypocrite.

Jack said, 'The only friends we don't spare--who do not escape our scrutiny--are our lovers and those who become our enemies.