Quotes Tagged "test"

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

God tests, but he does not tempt.

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

Those who have been trained by trials shall stand the test of time.

Faith is tested through fire.

When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.

Success is a test.

There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him...Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

Talking is something which just puts out your persona and tests all your knowledge.

I am the test pilot of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).

The W. M. Keck Observatory is the only employer that has surprise drug tested me during my employment.

Science has never been defined by infallibility or superhuman perfection. It has always been about healthy skepticism, about putting every hypothesis to the test.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

This strange new test called PISA, which stood for the Program for International Student Assessment. Instead of a typical test question, which might ask which combination of coins you needed to buy something, PISA asked you to design your own coins, right there in the test booklet.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.