Quotes of: Test-pilot Keyword

A brick could be placed in the trunk of a car manufacturer’s competitor, to increase the odds of decreasing their fuel efficiency. 

The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

A brick could be used as a musical instrument. But it would take someone as deaf as Beethoven to enjoy it. 

The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

A brick could deliver the zeitgeist through the thick skull of a politician faster than any letter or email. 

The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

A brick could be used to foretell the future. And from all indicators, 2013’s going to be a blanket of a year. 

The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.

Eric Liu

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.

Jenny Holzer

Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

The ultimate test of a transformational leader is the ability to raise up a new generation of leaders.

The Art of Virtue-Based Transformational Leadership

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

The Just and the Unjust

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what’s inside someone until he’s tested.

Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

Soul of the Fire

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

The Screwtape Letters

Someone's forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

What's the point in being here if you have to follow a computer? What is this, a fucking Turing test in reverse?

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

Linger

The wisdom of LIFE eludes even the best... For those who pass the test Life is a fest,While, its forever, A battle for the rest..

Life Simplified!

Attitude is that litmus test which differentiates a knower from a doer. Knowers have only the skills; doers have the skills and the will to do what they know!

Leaders' Watchwords

The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them.

Make Good Art

Peace without shield and weapon is a no man's land. Shield and weapon without war won't be thoroughly tested.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.

Something Like Summer