The biggest memory I have is the 1984 European Cup final against Roma and my ‘spaghetti legs’ routine during the penalty shoot-out that won us the trophy. People said I was being disrespectful to their players, but I was just testing their concentration under pressure. I guess they failed that test.
The only reason I ever shared my health journey with the world was because I felt it to be my duty to sufferers that are bed-ridden and dying because there has yet to be found a proper diagnostic test for Lyme Disease in this country.
You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.
Emily Blunt helped me study for a Spanish test, and I got an A+ on it!
The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.
Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale – we only have one planet after all. We’re better off cutting our emissions so we don’t need them.
I can’t go and shoot people in the back of the head because It’s a kids’ movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven’t got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
At the end of the day, is Singapore society better or worse off? That’s the test.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
That’s what defines ‘Survivor’: it’s the ultimate test of who you are.
Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim.
I think the higher you can bat in your Shield team, if you’re doing well there the better off you’re going to be for batting anywhere in the Test line-up or any of the line-ups.
There was a general consensus to go for the nuclear test. The whole nation wanted it, and it was done properly.
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter’s emotions come across?
Pink Floyd, the most successful progressive rock band of all time, have stood the test of time because the emphasis was always on melody and atmosphere.
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.
What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: ‘I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.’
If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it… if it doesn’t stand the test of public scrutiny then don’t do it.
When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that’s the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.
In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can’t testify. Because there’s no way to test what is real, what’s fact, what’s fantasy.
After 114 Test matches, 228 ODIs, and 78 T20 Internationals, it is time for others to take over. I have had my turn, and to be honest, I am tired.
The Ashes are the biggest Test series played in the world.
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic.
I don’t have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that’s the severest test, not death.
I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that’s really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it’s very different. You’re out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn’t that fascinating.
To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enough information to evaluate these concepts and not be like travelers in a foreign land who compare everything with their own hometown.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
I’m not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software… that you can’t fully test it.
And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
If you are going to raise youngsters for Test cricket that don’t have the experience, you can’t stick them into T20. You’ve got to teach them first how to play Test cricket, and when they’re good enough for Test cricket and if they want to play both formats, then they can.
Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.
My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character. You come to know about your mental toughness, and most importantly, there is another level of satisfaction as a player.
I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.
We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.
Increased physical activity during the school day can help children’s attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development.
The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.
Eggs are one of my all-time favorite foods, and making the over-easy egg is a test of skill.
Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don’t necessarily understand that you’re not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.
When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It’s all real because it’s all ‘real.’
My family moved from Massachusetts to Maryland after my sophomore year of high school, and that’s when I got the audition for ‘Uncle Buck.’ I took the train into New York, and I think I did the test with John Candy. Then I got the part, and it was my first movie and my first screen anything.
Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids’ toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don’t hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it – they are all public employees.
Yosemite has the most impressive and accessible granite big walls in the world. The rock is amazing. And because of that, it’s been the mecca for climbing in the U.S. – and the world to a large degree – for all of climbing history. It’s the place to test yourself against the historic routes of the past.
I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn’t think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I’d never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn’t remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to ’em in a minute.
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what might work and what we need to do is not come up with more good ideas. We need to go and test as many of those good ideas as possible.
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.
The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
