Quotes About Scrutiny

These examples should be models for communication, precisely because they inspire curiosity. "How does money influence politics?" is not an especially engaging question, but "If I were running for president, how would I raise lots of money with few conditions and no scrutiny?" is much more intriguing.

What a way to go," he said. "Everyone putting your life under the microscope. What if we paid that kind of attention to people while they were alive?

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

What we call "time" is a complex collection of structures,2 of layers. Under increasing scrutiny, in ever greater depth, time has lost layers one after another, piece by piece. The first part of this book gives an account of this crumbling of time.

Look at me, because in my eyes you will see hundreds of thousands of eyes staring at you, and in my voice you will hear hundreds of thousands of voices accusing you.' (Moorehead, 2011, 300)

Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

if you gave the media any part of yourself, it squeezed it, twisted it, and wrung it dry.

He had to look.

Most footballers are quite tense, aren't they? So many footballers have been stitched up over the years. They've got to mind what they say, be careful about this, careful about that, because something might be misconstrued, twisted around.

When you're in the public eye and do interviews, your words get twisted and people put you in a negative light.

Being a pastor's kid comes with a lot of pressure and scrutiny. A lot of my dad's sermons were about respect. It was a beautiful way to be taught about love and two people being equal.

You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

Equality is paper-deep, peel it away with a fingernail.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.