Quotes About Scrutiny

Beauty pageants, you're only judged once. Sorority rush, you have to go through 20 parties.

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If you shared your happiness with journalists, you shouldn't be surprised if they were interested in your misfortune as well.

I was trying to get a handle on Blindsight; I entertained and discarded any number of adaptive functions in search of that grand thematic punchline that would end the book. Yes, my protagonist would realize, self-awareness is absolutely essential because of X. The problem was, I couldn't find an X that stood up under scrutiny; and it took me far too long to realize that Consciousness is good for nothing at all was the scariest and most existentially gut-churning punchline imaginable.

To subject to scrutiny the mechanisms which render life painful, even untenable, is not to neutralize them; to bring to light contradictions is not to resolve them. But, as skeptical as one might be about the efficacy of the sociological message, we cannot dismiss the effect it can have by allowing sufferers to discover the possible social causes of their suffering and, thus, to be relieved of blame.

There's backlash about everything I do.

If I had a bad game, people would point that out.

To be the first to do something is huge - all eyes are on you. You just don't know how people are going to judge you.

Yes, observing is one of my biggest assets," he said, "I always observe.

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it. Let us stop him at the top of the hill on some excuse, and have a good look at him.

Rasca a un altruista y verás sangrar a un hipócrita.

I find a tattered copy of 1984. I open the book and read a little. Of course it is fiction, but the author gets a few things right—the control, the scrutiny, the feeling that nothing can be spontaneous, that the slightest move carries consequences for your future. It evokes a feeling I haven't experienced in a long time, a sense that, even though you have a great job and house, there is no safe place to turn. The

But in the bar, the real science gets scrutinized and the best ideas assembled. Lifelong collaborations and friendships are made, bitter squabbles and permanent enmities are forged.

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

Not really a perfectionist, but everybody around me is.

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

But when physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect.

But when the physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect.

we were ourselves again, ready to toothcomb the universe.

I was half lawyer; I always noticed the loopholes.

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.

People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.