Quotes About Scrutiny

Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been a very, very open book.

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.

General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.

He tilts his head to one side, studying me like a judge eyeing a show dog. The effect is ruined when he sneezes.

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

In page after page of the Summa, Aquinas will calmly and tentatively assert a position. Then he looks around at all the counterpositions and objections. He examines whether they hold up under scrutiny; if not, he quietly refutes them and moves on to the next question. At one stroke, a Christian dialectic was born, more sophisticated than Abelard's and more all-embracing than Anselm's, because it stands on a reading of Aristotle's entire corpus.

What?" she said, suddenly feeling uncomfortable under his scrutiny. She knew it was silly. He'd seen her at her absolute worst. "You just look so... cute," he said. "Clearly breaking the law excites you.

From now on, I want you to look at your behavior the way a scientist looks at what's growing in a petri dish—with curiosity and objective distance.

The calling of a man's self to a strict account, is a medicine, sometime too piercing and corrosive.

The ratio of celebrity divorces is probably about the same as non-celebrity divorces; it's just that the non-celebrity divorces don't get a lot of public scrutiny, normally.

I think my reaction to most issues is to get the facts and circumstances.

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.

You can't help it as a human being when you're put under so much scrutiny by multiple people, not even just one person in real life, telling you something. It harms you.

When you're playing for Real Madrid, even when you're playing well, you're under scrutiny.

There is a sense of responsibility when you play a real-life character because there are people who will see your work, make comparisons, and judge you. They have all the rights to do that because they know the real person. They might have seen that person also.

For the rest of my life, I realise people are going to ask questions of me, but at the end of the day, I am a clean athlete, and I have worked hard.

Citizens need to know how their countries are being run so that they can hold governments and big business to account.

I went to Everton, and it's levels - the higher up you get, you are under more and more scrutiny as a football player. You have to learn to deal with it at that scale and gradually progress to be able to deal with it at an even higher scale.