Examination Quotes - Page 11

• Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Thoughtful, Practice

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Self, People

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• Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.

  St. Lucia

  Art, School, Offers

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.

  Tim Ferriss

  Self, Decision, Way

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

  Tom Hanks

  Mirrors, Celebration, Behavior

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• If somebody comes up and says, "[Barack] Obama was born in Kenya," the story becomes, "Will Obama succeed in refuting this charge and then can we make these villains making the charge look like reprobates?" No examination of the allegation or examination of the issues.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Issues, Looks, Kenya

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.

  Josemaria Escriva

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically decorous and methodologically unimpeachable, but conclusions are often trivial and rarely useful in decision making. This results from an overly rigorous control of an insignificant variable and a widespread deficiency in the framing of pertinent questions. Investigators seem to have settled for what is measurable instead of measuring what they would really like to know.

  Edmund Pellegrino

  Knowledge, Science, Data

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• In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

  Walter Alexander Raleigh

  Knowledge, Science, Wish

  Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (1923). “Laughter from a Cloud”

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• A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at once. We must content ourselves with tracking it down, enveloped in considerable darkness, which leads us to make new mistakes and errors. By diligent examination, we may at length little by little peel off the thickest layers, but we seldom get the core quite free, so that finally we have to be satisfied with a little incomplete knowledge.

  Torbern Bergman

  Mistake, Knowledge, Science

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• In the traditionally taught view of perception, data from the sensorium pours into the brain, works its way up the sensory hierarchy, and makes itself seen, heard, smelled, tasted, felt - "perceived." But a closer examination of the data suggests this is incorrect. The brain is properly thought of as a mostly closed system that runs on its own internally generated activity.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Views, Data

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.55, Vintage

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• It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget.

  Gerald Horne

  Writing, Rights, Different

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

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• There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate, and who are outraged at the slightest suggestion of a critical re-examination of the subject. The political pressure for constant extension and increase of these benefits is almost irresistible.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Political, Receiving

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.202, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from the examination of molecules all the way to the delivery of medicines to patients. Already in the conception and selection of research projects, companies would anticipate all the challenges down the line that they will need to overcome in order to achieve actual health impact. Bureaucratic organizations, by contrast, are notoriously bad at this sort of optimizing.

  Thomas Pogge

  Government, Order, Organization

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.

  Joseph Paxton

  Knowledge, Science, Vegetables

  Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.2

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• Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing and the trying of the others, there has been this peculiar rapport, comradeship, of us two so alike, so similar, but for science-boy and humanities-girl - the introspection, self examination, biannual deep summarizing conversations, and then the platonic parting.

  Sylvia Plath

  Crush, Girl, Kissing

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• I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

  Brian Blessed

  Teacher, Drama, School

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• The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Sight, Bears

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.340

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• A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.

  Drea de Matteo

  Worthless

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• Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a
  question he considers very problematic after giving it careful thought,
  distrust those quick answers that come to the mind of someone who has
  considered it only briefly or not at all. These answers are usually
  simplistic views lacking in consistency, which explain nothing, or which do
  not bear examination.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Men, Views, Giving

  Joseph de Maistre, Richard Lebrun (1993). “St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence”, p.205, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

  Morris Kline

  Order, Baffled, Students

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• While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators. The speculative urge that lies within most of us is strong; the prospect of a free lunch can be compelling, especially when others have already seemingly partaken. It can be hard to concentrate on potential losses while others are greedily reaching for gains and your broker is on the phone offering shares in the latest "hot" initial public offering. Yet the avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.

  Seth Klarman

  Strong, Lying, Loss

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• One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a relic of the violence of this explosion. This big bang idea seemed to me to be unsatisfactory even before detailed examination showed that it leads to serious difficulties.

  Fred Hoyle

  Life, Science, Ideas

  Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”

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• Ability is not always gauged by examination.

  Indira Gandhi

  Ability

  Indira Gandhi (1971). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of challenge, January 1966-August 1969”

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• When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?

  Karl Pearson

  Science, Men, Past

  Karl Pearson (1892). “The Grammar of Science”

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