Testing Quotes - Page 10

• We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Teacher, Community, Needs

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• It is essential that we take steps to prevent chemical substances from becoming environmental hazards. Unless we develop better methods to assure adequate testing of chemicals, we will be inviting the environmental crisis of the future.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Environmental, Essentials, Hazards

  Nixon, Richard M. (1972). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971”, p.132, Best Books on

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• Its not that I dont value my life. Its just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

  Wendy O. Williams

  Lines, Chance, Values

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• My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.

  Bryan Batt

  Believe, Squares, Light

  "Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In". Book by Bryan Batt, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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• Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Cancer, Mean

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• Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Kids, Important

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• a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Thinking, Answers, Stills

  Jacqueline Winspear (2010). “Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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• If you look at the top ten most reliable cars, as reported by thousands of people in all kinds of independent testing, there's only one American car in the top ten. It's the Buick.

  Howard Fineman

  Independent, Car, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Experts, Affection

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.

  Walt Disney

  Technology, Epcot, Ideas

  "EPCOT". Promotional film, www.imdb.com. February 2, 1967.

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• In between shooting for Awake, I was attempting to have my own pilot season. The audition for Anger Management actually came during a week that I was already testing for a couple other shows and we werent really letting any other shows into the mix.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  Couple, Auditions, Shooting

  "Daniela Bobadilla Talks ANGER MANAGEMENT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 20, 2012.

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• We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Pain, Pride, Perfection

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• Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family and indeed all the suffering in the world isn't caused by any omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.

  Penn Jillette

  Believe, Mean, Helping Others

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Jay Allison, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Rama, Wonderful

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• Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

  PZ Myers

  Real, World, Claims

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• For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

  Colin Powell

  Feelings, Endurance, Hardship

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing.

  Robert Todd Carroll

  Hard Work, Long, Research

  "Graphology". "The Skeptic's Dictionary" by Robert Todd Carroll, skepdic.com.

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• Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the reason for the wax is that the E.T.S. tests persist in showing some people to be smarter than others. And if some people are smarter than others, there might actually be some justification for an economic system in which some people have more money and authority than others.

  Daniel Seligman

  Educational, Organization, Aptitude Test

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• Let me leap naked through life's testing flame, And bear to lose, and yet endure to win.

  Kenneth Rand

  Life, Winning, Flames

  Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”

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• Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.

  Mark Cuban

  Video, Internet, Mediums

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• I just like testing myself. I just have that thing in me. Whatever it is that people tell me I can't do, I've gotta try it.

  Chris Gethard

  People, Trying, Tell Me I Can T

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like to discover new things and I'm always testing new apps.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Apps, New Things

  "Meet Le Geek: Francois-Henri Pinault". Interview with Joe Einhorn, techcrunch.com. August 5, 2012.

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• The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial and error, by selling real products to real people who pay real money.

  Clayton Christensen

  Real, Errors, People

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Clayton Christensen, Kenneth L. Kraemer (2015). “Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Let us always keep before our eyes the fact that here on earth we are on a battlefield and that in paradise we shall receive the crown of victory; that this is a testing-ground and the
  prize will be awarded up above; that we are now in a land of exile while our true homeland is Heaven to which we must continually aspire.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Eye, Land, Heaven

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• A lot of players are slow to change, you're playing good,( you think) why do I want to mess with that ? It takes a lot of testing, a lot of practice and observation of the ball, especially under competitive circumstances, to realize this is a better product and I need to start using it.

  David Duval

  Change, Player, Thinking

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