I was never a prisoner of any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test I applied to every theory or scheme was: Would it work? The acid test is in performance, not promises. It is not from weakness that one commands respect. As long as the leaders take care of their people, they will obey the leaders.
A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?
The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. It's a negotiation tool.
All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.
You sit men and women down and give them a maths test, and they will do fairly equally. Then you set up the same test, but with different people, and make them tick a box to say whether they are a man or a woman, and the women do significantly worse in the maths test than they did previously in a group set.
The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
Initially, when we were running just one hotel in Gurgaon, I used to handle housekeeping, sales, CEO duties, etc. I would literally wear the OYO Rooms uniform for housekeeping and would show the room to customers.
The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.
The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.