Quotes About Scrutiny

Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through all of those already, in silence, except death. And I remind myself all the time now, that if I were to have been born mute, and had maintained an oath of silence my whole life for safety, I would still have suffered, and I would still die.

As we learn to bear the intimacy of scrutiny and to flourish within it, as we learn to use the products of that scrutiny for power within our living, those fears which rule our lives and form our silences begin to lose their control over us.

These core certainties are sheltered from your scrutiny. Because you know you can depend on them, you never question them.

She looked slowly about her, noting every object and the reason for its presence.

Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature theorizing are positive disadvantages in approaching a planet where—as has become clear—anything is possible... The fact is that in spite of his cautious nature the scrupulous Giese more than once jumped to premature conclusions. Even when on their guard, human beings inevitably theorize.

I greatly enjoyed these studies. Geshe Rabten communicated the ideas clearly and succinctly, then had us divide into pairs to pick apart in debate the details of what he had just taught. This was an excellent intellectual discipline. It made me aware of how much of my thinking was muddled. Without subjecting one's ideas to such scrutiny, it is easy and reassuring to cherish opinions that, in the end, are found to rest on the sloppiest of unexamined assumptions. This

Ironically, the only two "relevan[t]" metrics that the Court does identify are "how and why" a gun control regulation "burden[s the] right to armed self-defense." In other words, the Court believes that the most relevant metrics of comparison are a regulation's means (how) and ends (why)—even as it rejects the utility of means-end scrutiny.

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

Lily Houghton-Miller stood in the middle of my living room and surveyed me with the detached interest of a scientist gazing at a new variety of manure-based invertebrate.

After years of watching adversaries comb through her public records for any hint of a scandal, and after accessing her own aides' e-mails, Hillary well understood the danger of exposing her own private thoughts to scrutiny. And that was reason enough to want them shielded from political enemies, journalists, and the public.

Give every data point the attention and scrutiny it deserves, and keep an open mind for alternative explanations that may explain your observations as well as (or better than) your pet theories.

One attended one's church, and one stood and one kneeled and one sat at the proper times and did what was required of one, but to scratch beneath this highly lacquered surface was to venture well beyond the pale in that society and invite stares and whispers and certain banishment.

Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

He hadn't imagined a world in which one hundred percent of the people he investigated were up to no good.

human behaviour, if scrutinized sufficiently intensely, can begin to seem suspicious:

each regulator was aware of only part of the problem, and some parts were not examined at all.

I was acutely aware that any slip would be echoed and amplified, so I limited my participation to delivering my prepared remarks.

At the same time, we all knew the frustrations of struggling with extraordinarily complex problems under unrelenting public and political scrutiny.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

Honestly, I am too critical about my work.

I'm always looking for a reason to disregard.

If you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.