Exam Quotes - Page 6

• So, in life we have a one question final exam - and it's not the kind of exam you can cram for at the very end. One of the main reasons we're alive is to expand our capacity to love.

  Marci Shimoff

  Capacity To Love, Finals, Alive

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.

  Matt Groening

  Work Out, Coats, Plans

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• New rule: Stop calling it Obamacare. It's not like Obama will be the doctor for
  your next prostate exam. That's just a common fantasy of Republican men.

  Bill Maher

  Men, Doctors, Obamacare

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• For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Lying, Believe

  Source: progressive.org

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• I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.

  Boy George

  Mom, Good Luck, Media

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I started having some memory-loss issues. I took a neurological exam, and they said, "Well, you should stop fighting now." And I kept begging them for one more fight, one more fight, and the doctor said to me, "How much are they going to pay you?" I was supposed to fight three more times, and one would have been for a cruiser belt. So I said, "I just need to fight three more times." He said, "Listen, you can't even get hit in the head one more time, your neuro is so bad."

  Mickey Rourke

  Memories, Fighting, Loss

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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• I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

  Alan Bennett

  School, Ideas, Forgotten

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Suppose a student of mine writes in her exam that "morality is completely relative to culture, so nothing is absolutely right or wrong. Because of that, it is absolutely wrong to be culturally intolerant". This student, if she believes what she writes, believes a contradiction. She ought not to believe the contradiction - it's a basic epistemic norm. This is true even if she can't avoid believing it - no amount of studying will show her the light.

  Nomy Arpaly

  Believe, Writing, Culture

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look at the high level of eighth-grade exams from early in the 20th century and you will weep. The more money the Left has gotten for education - America now spends more per student than any country in the world - the worse the academic results. And the Left has removed God and dress codes from schools - with socially disastrous results.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, School, America

  "From California to the Boy Scouts: Left Destroys More than It Builds". jewishworldreview.com. February 24, 2009.

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• I remember when I came out of an exam thinking I had done well and then I had a clue that maybe one answer was wrong, I remembered that I rather stop knowing, stop thinking about it, appreciating life instead. So first, it was just a memory. But then I realized that in life, it's a much more general sentiment - that instead of waiting for other people's judgment, I'd rather focus on my own feelings, that everything is fine. To go on with my life rather than anticipating other people's judgements that might be negative.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Memories, Thinking, Appreciate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Cancer, Men, Doctors

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• There are some surprising payoffs with only a few minutes' practice, like eliminating the loss of concentration that multitasking usually brings. Short daily mindfulness practice in beginners also improves memory, to the point that a group of students who volunteered for a study got significantly better scores on their graduate school entrance exams.

  Daniel Goleman

  Memories, School, Loss

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• I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

  Rupert Graves

  School, Blue, Class

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life. Peer pressure, acne, final exams, seven little tiny hairs on your upper lip. Luckily, the girls never noticed your infantile moustache, 'cos they were hyptonised by the fire engine sized zit on your forehead.

  Christopher Titus

  Girl, Teenager, Years

  "Titus / Errrr". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.

  Maeve Binchy

  Understanding, Lucky, Sake

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• From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.

  Tom Chatfield

  Journey, Self, Health Education

  "Can Video Games Alter Society.. in a Good Way?" by Tom Chatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.

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• I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

  Jack Ma

  Teacher, School, Cities

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• I was a good student but I was also one of those people that could not got to class and then the day before the exam stay up all night (studying), which I do not recommend doing. But that's more the kind of thing you do when you're younger and you're in college in a band and wanted to party, too.

  Jeff Kendrick

  Party, Night, College

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• I went to law school which is a 3-year program in the US that is focused primarily on memorizing certain doctrines and taking exams that test whether you can apply those doctrines to help prepare for the bar exam. If you are lucky, you get a few classes where you are encouraged to think more critically and read critical texts rather than just casebooks, and perhaps write a paper that is not a legal memo or brief.

  Dean Spade

  Writing, School, Thinking

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Training, Littles, France

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's a lot of stress on young people. They've always got exams and have to reach this goal or reach that goal. Yoga might be really good for them because there must be a lot of emotions that come up and yoga would really help to get a perspective and balance.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Stress, Yoga, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I didn't go to university. They offered me a job as a junior reporter and I went off to work for the Southern Reporter. They sent me to college to do my NCTJ, which is a professional exam for journalists, and I started work as a print journalist purely because I was just a pest. They couldn't think of anything other than giving me a job to stop me hanging around.

  Jill Douglas

  Jobs, College, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming a child? Or the police be tolerant of criminals who prey upon others? Should doctors be tolerant of disease, or public schoolteachers tolerant of any answer on an exam, no matter how wrong?

  Dave Hunt

  Children, Doctors, Parent

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• Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

  L. Todd Rose

  Extra Time, People, Giving

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I go in for the eye test, and I don't know about you, but I concentrate like crazy during the eye exam. You don't want to get no 'D' on that thing and end up with these big thick Coke bottle glasses.

  Brian Regan

  Crazy, Eye, Glasses

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