Tests

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Jeanette Winterson
Work
Lie
Tests
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Peace
Battle
Tests
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.
Robert Sternberg
Thought
People
Expectations
First
School
Teachers
Tests
Years
In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.
Robert Sternberg
Tests
Words
Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.
Willie Stargell
Life
Tests
That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
Tony Snow
Science
Measure
Nothing
Tests
There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.
Martha Smith
Countries
Country
Example
First
Nations
Protest
Testing
Tests
United
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail Sheehy
Life
Leader
Action
Habit
Lies
Meeting
Tests
Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.
Gene Shalit
Tests
And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.
John Sexton
Work
Months
Tests
Today
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
Erwin Schrodinger
Successful
Now
Tests
Theory
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
Bob Schieffer
Time
Help
Journalism
Tests
Writing
Years
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.
Thomas J. Sargent
Class
Danger
Opponents
Tests
I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions.
James Randi
Results
Tests
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
Karl Popper
Tests
Theories