Top 771 Standardized Testing Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

This is what I wanted all along, and after I finished my studies and begun the job of testing jet aircraft, well, there wasn't a happier pilot in the air force.

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.

If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.

Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.

The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.

Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide.

A friend of mine had a private kitchen that was available and it was an inexpensive way of starting a restaurant and testing whether or not I could sell my cuisine.

I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. But an important minority of men and women coming to the front today have shown they will die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

Way before musicians and actors cornered the market on misbehavior, writers were flooding hotel rooms and testing their livers' upper limits.

For me I love playing against the best players in the world, testing yourself and seeing whether you can get the better of them.

CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.

I like to discover new things and I'm always testing new apps.

For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas.

John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof.

It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say 'OK we'll have another go' instead of it being the only chance you get.

The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical way to start a story, whereas in creative writing you may begin at the end or begin at the middle of the story.

Philanthropic funding can play a vital role in testing and stimulating innovation that, when proven, can be implemented at scale by business or government.

If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.

Loss-absorbing capacity among banks is substantially higher as a result of both regulatory requirements and stress testing exercises.

When I get back from a mid-morning stroll, I'll do some writing then I'll typically spend the day testing new recipes.

If you're not out testing what's complementary to your brand, you're not making the most of your income potential.

I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations

The testing levels have become ridiculous. All they show is contamination, and they have really put the trainers' heads on the chopping blocks. It hurts racing.

There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the night before.

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.

A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.

Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

The biggest challenge I think every publisher is facing is how do we get readers to pay for content? So we're constantly testing, trying new things.

China has even conducted human testing on members of the People's Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with biologically enhanced capabilities.

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

They were just accidents. Luke said he was just testing my concussion. I'm not mad at him.

I like to discover new things, and I'm always testing new apps.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

It's clear that means testing can direct limited resources to the elderly in need and achieve better results in poverty alleviation.

Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

I just want to keep things going. I just love testing myself.

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

Companies using public lands should be required to perform thorough testing on all wells in order to fully ensure water safety.

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith.

Whenever I go through any sort of bad patch, I remind myself that part of the game of cricket is God testing you.

Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

The big difference with the recognition is that when I go on an audition, I don't feel like they're testing my abilities as much as they're just seeing if it's a fit. So that's nice.

The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.