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Examining Quotes

Lines on looking closely before judging.

These quotes describe the discipline of examining something carefully, whether a successful classroom, a person's strengths, or one's own thoughts, echoing broader reflections on life.

Some of the traits that make you a great entrepreneur also work against you. Examining data of high-scoring people, we find that oftentimes the world frustrates them: They're super-smart, they're super-capable, and the work quality of their peers is vastly...

Quotes by Adeo Ressi

I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That,...

Quotes by Adam Hamilton

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

Quotes by William Winwood Reade

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

Quotes by William Pollard

Good Quotes

I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of...

Quotes by William Golding

As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

Quotes by Wendy Kopp

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

Quotes by Vernon Howard

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

Quotes by Tim Hardaway

I think it's good that we're talking about it, but I think there's still a gendered nature to the way that people see female directors' skill sets. And I think we need to keep examining that. I don't know if...

Quotes by Susanna Fogel

Great Quotes

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

Quotes by Simon Greenleaf

They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn...

Quotes by Scott Rudin

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

Quotes by Robert Trout

Dodd-Frank greatly expanded the regulatory reach of the Federal Reserve. It did not, however, examine whether it was correctly structured to account for these new and expansive powers. Therefore, the Committee will be examining the appropriateness of the Fed's current...

Quotes by Richard Shelby

Life Quotes

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Quotes by Quintilian

Though suffering and trauma are not identical, the Buddha's insight into the nature of suffering can provide a powerful mirror for examining the effects of trauma in your life. The Buddha's basic teaching offers guidance for healing our trauma and...

Quotes by Peter A. Levine

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Nikolai Gogol

We need to keep examining evilness. For instance, I'm totally against the fact that Osama bin Laden was shot. I think that he should have been put on trial and exposed as that human being he was. I think he...

Quotes by Niels Arden Oplev

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

Quotes by Milla Jovovich

Me Quotes

Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively challenging. I think that leads people to accept truly false news without examining it, without being...

Quotes by Maryanne Wolf

Frequently Asked Questions

What does "examining" mean on this page?
It refers to the practice of looking closely at something, whether a classroom, a person's strengths, or one's own thoughts, rather than judging on the surface.
Why does one quote focus on classrooms specifically?
It reflects on studying what actually makes certain classrooms and schools succeed, aiming to learn from working examples rather than assumptions.
Is this page about self-improvement?
Partly. One quote encourages examining the mind directly instead of avoiding difficult thoughts, tying into broader life reflection.
What's meant by not being limited by mistakes?
That line suggests focusing on a person's strengths when evaluating them, rather than fixating only on past errors.
Where does curiosity fit into this theme?
One quote links ongoing curiosity to a lasting practice of studying things closely, suggesting inquiry itself grows from a basic desire to understand.

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