Test Quotes

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

Physical courage is a great test.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.

My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

That's the test of street art - to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

You can't test courage cautiously.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.