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Quotes About Examination

The path to God's favor always requires self-examination and a right heart before God.
~ Alfred Ells
I've always been a scientist in terms of watching basketball. I like to dissect it all.
~ Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
~ Jack Vance
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
~ Samuel Johnson
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
~ Barbara Kruger
That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.
~ Alice Oswald
I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
~ Louis Theroux
Well, the IG's role is to find facts, not to necessarily make conclusions.
~ John Ratcliffe
I am a connoisseur of products. I check out everything, I try everything.
~ Tracee Ellis Ross
Representation is a sort of surveillance.
~ Martine Syms
The idea behind 'Defending Your Life': Imagine if you had to sit in a courtroom and watch your life. I don't care who you are - if you committed a crime and you had to have all of your emails searched and made public, who on this planet could survive that? Nobody.
~ Albert Brooks
One way to focus on details is to describe the various parts that make up the whole. A tangerine, for instance, consists of rind, juice, seeds, fruit, pulp, grainy membranes, stem, blossoms and leaves. Describing each of these parts will force you to notice details you might otherwise overlook, what Chekhov called the "little particulars." Later you may decide you've included too many particulars. If so, you can always remove some of them or group them in a different way. In
~ Rebecca McClanahan
All known cases of women in the ranks involved volunteers who, unlike regulars, often did not have to undergo physical examination upon enlistment. One Alabama Volunteer passed off a female companion as his frail younger brother until the ruse was discovered. Caroline Newcome took the name "Bill" and served as a private in the Missouri volunteers until pregnancy betrayed her. A similar case occurred in the Mississippi volunteers.
~ Richard Bruce Winders
Of only one thing I am certain. If the manuscript is true, all of us had better examine our lives. Carefully.
~ Richard Matheson
The only thing worth believing in is measurement.
~ Richard Powers
He carried the two deceased monkeys into an examination room down the hallway and shut the door after him, out of sight of the other monkeys. (You can't cut up a dead monkey in front of other monkeys—it will cause a riot.)
~ Richard Preston
More than any other development, Chadwick's neutron made practical the detailed examination of the nucleus.
~ Richard Rhodes
People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
~ Richard Russo
Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. Yeah, here's a rare grocery list, Dan muttered. Wow.
~ Rick Riordan
we can find flaws in their methodology
~ Ken Follett
I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world.
~ Russ Roberts
The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. contempt prior to examination.
~ William Paley
realist works I look for detail; 'Look at the eyelashes!
~ David Nicholls
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
~ David Reisman