Quotes About Test

It's a great bullshit test of any boss who says, "X is important." If she doesn't match that statement with resources, she's incompetent, insincere, or both.

To understand who people really are, start a fire. When everything is going fine, you see only the safest parts of people's character. It's only when something is burning that you find out who people really are. Of course, it's wrong to set a fire on purpose, but if you have a small fire already burning, let it burn and see who, if anyone, complains, runs away, or comes to help.

Q: Why did the teacher jump into the lake? A: She wanted to test the waters.

Until a man has passed this test of office And proved himself in the exercise of power, He can't be truly known--for what he is, I mean, In his heart and mind and capabilities. Worst is the man who has all the good advise And then because his nerve fails, fails to act In accordance with it, as a leader should.

Time tries the troth in everything.

If I run a time-limited test program, I'll never discover whether markets with additional employment truly exist. A solution in the low-wage sector cannot be a limited special program.

[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

The measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the beginning that you're going to win. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them.

Give the reader hell. Stretch the reader.

It's a drag, not being young, but at least I don't have to take a test tomorrow morning.

I am amazed all over again by how magnified this project's importance has become, far beyond its being a play or an artwork. It is now a test of some kind; but of what, precisely? The incommunicability of the Chinese? If I can't claim to know my actors, I know them as well or as little as I would an American cast. I can no longer call up the notion of Chinese mysteriousness.

The No. 2 pencils had been handed out. The timer had been started. But we had not even registered that the test had begun.

All beliefs are worth examining. The key is to notice your beliefs, and test them – not necessarily discard them.

She took the Saturday Review's 1962 test, "Your Literary I.Q.," and outscored VN by a long shot;

Experience, the wise man said, is a hard teacher. First comes the test, then the lesson.

May works be the test of patriotism as they ought, of right, to be of religion.

The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.

It came to him (and with the force of a revelation) that life was basically one long SAT test, and instead of four or five choices, you got dozens.