Examining Quotations

Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'

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 should've been standing mentally naked in front of the rest of us and stand to justice for what he did.

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

I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.

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 inferior to what they can achieve on their own.

Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated.

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.

Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories.

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

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.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just a festival of information. We're all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can't imagine that it's like that everywhere else.

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

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, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

Setting the images in motion reveals a lot about the asteroid itself, ... The movies give us a dynamic look at changes in the shadowing and shading of surface features. By examining features with different illumination, geologists get a better look into the history of the asteroid.

We're in the final stages of examining what it would take to stand on the shoulders of what exists now and be among the best in the world.

Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.

Imagine a nineteenth-century Jane Fonda visiting the Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills before the battle at Little Big Horn. Imagine her examining Crazy Horse's arrows or climbing upon Sitting Bull's horse. Such behavior by a well-known actress no doubt would have infuriated Gen. George Armstrong Custer, but what would the rest of us feel today?

Kyle's, for instance, would've happened in a swimming pool. The way that thing got pinned and turned had nothing to do with the turf whatsoever, ... What we're examining very closely, quite frankly, are the shoes. The players all want, just like the padding, as little a shoe, as light a shoe, as fast a shoe as they can get. But the shoe also is a very strong support mechanism for the foot.

It is only an interim decision. We are examining it very carefully. We were disappointed, of course, we would have liked to have won. But over all, our thrust remains, the U.S. has to live up to the NAFTA.

We have come a long way since we began examining this enormous technological challenge four years ago,

We have not received a copy of the order but it is understood that the high court has called for a report on various lapses that might be there in the case. Information is being gathered and we are examining reports of investigation.

What we're examining in this investigation is if there were alternatives to automatically releasing him.

We really followed our noses. No one was examining this problem of spontaneous pain.

We have a scorecard, and there are 22 points that we go through examining how the software behaves. In this case, XCP is falling down.

We're examining our risk up and down the East Coast and Gulf Coast, given the changes that have occurred.

We're examining the wreckage and we'll be talking with people in the control tower. We'll be looking at weather conditions, trying to find any witnesses.

The contract runs out next year. We're examining several options.

What we're trying to do is to see whether telehealth is an appropriate way to follow patients with dementia, ... The thing about dementia is once you've seen the patient and examined the patient neurologically, most of the followup is examining mental status, which we can do over telehealth. Talking to the patient and the family on how things are going and making some changes or suggestions, be it modifications in the environment or medication treatment for some of the behaviours?that works well over telehealth.

Tyson Foods is examining and testing the idea of using mobile marketing to build more direct relationships with consumers. Success will allow us to more effectively activate sponsorship properties like the U.S. Olympic Team and USA Gymnastics. This technology allowed us to effectively amplify the Tyson presence in the arena and initiate a dialog with more than half the families in attendance.

There is a broad range of people in government examining the military option.

We will continue to move forward in developing strategies that meet the needs of our U.S. Navy partners while causing the least disruption to Virginia Beach property owners. We remain committed to ensuring the decisions we reach in Virginia are based on accurate and objective data. We repeatedly implored the BRAC commissioners to make sure their actions in regard to the former Cecil Field were based on the same level of verifiable information and analysis that they seemingly applied when examining Oceana. I agree with Mayor Peyton that it is unfortunate the BRAC Commission's actions unfairly pitted two communities against each other.

With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.

We applaud films that present the bond between dogs and their people. The downside is that people become so enamored by the character portrayed on screen that they want that dog in their home. They assume the breed is great without examining if it is the right match for their lifestyles.

Eliminating disparities in all aspects of healthcare particularly organ transplantation is an indisputable goal for all of us, ... This conference is an important first step and we look forward to not only assessing the problem but also examining viable solutions to eliminate the disparities.

Being timid prevents us from examining and exploiting our lot as men

Believe me, if there is something there, the people we have examining him -- they will find it.

Earth is the laboratory for future discoveries on Mars. Without examining Earth's extreme environments, we wouldn't understand how processes worked to shape the landscape, chemistry and life at the limits. Without that understanding, we couldn't draw conclusions about how life can develop on other planets. By examining these windows to Mars, scientists step out of the vicarious and into real features on Earth that function similarly to those on Mars.

We've increased patrols ... on that side of campus, and we're examining other things over there as well, from lighting to security fences.

An extensive two-year study by the University of Maryland examining the effects of racial and jurisdictional factors on the imposition of the death penalty is nearing completion.

We are examining a number of possible explanations for the pressure increase. Loss of control of the reaction leading to excessive heating and boiling of the flammable solvents is a likely cause.

We are examining each of our product categories to determine how we can improve revenues, return gross margins to 20% percent or higher, and reduce operating expenses as we target a return to profitability in the second half of the calendar year.

We are examining our systems to make sure there is not some hole where people are not getting picked up.

We are examining the information that ABC presented to us to see if there is any cause for ongoing action,

We are examining the ruling and have not made a decision yet as to what are next steps will be.

We are examining what alternative documents we could use for people in those border areas to go back and forth.

One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby DMV office to get my driver's permit. Some of my friends already had their licenses, so I figured it was time. But when I handed the clerk my green card as proof of U.S. residency, she flipped it around, examining it. 'This is fake,' she whispered. 'Don't come back here again.'

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 out to be the person you want to be?

Our air-traffic group is looking at the decision-making process and how they decided which runway to use and which ones not to use. We are also examining the responses between the pilots and the air-traffic controllers and what they viewed as the conditions of the runway.

Tens of millions of users are a much more powerful force in examining the more than 8 million classified ads per month than any staff could be.

Our definition of second homes has changed with the buyer shift toward investment property, ... In examining Census data to determine the number of investment units, we see that second homes are a much larger share than the conventional mind-set of them being mostly vacation homes.

This show is not about the process of prosecuting somebody. It's about going into this world and examining why people do what they do..

The papers were in such bad condition, but they're examining them to see if there's a name there or if they belong to this man.

A few short years ago, those numbers would have been laughed at as impossible goals. Our agency is constantly examining its strategies and looking at outcomes to determine how we can help the mining industry drive fatality, injury and illness rates down to zero.

This is an issue that the caucus asked the government to consider, so we're examining that as something we may want to consider during the course of the fall.

This is not a done deal, we are examining some parts of the order that may merit rehearing, ... We are encouraged by FERC's decision, but we are looking at some of the limitations in the order.

David is divine, ... He's a master at examining and taking apart a script and putting it back together. He so loves the craft, and he's so positive and encouraging. This is a rarity, this theater... It's a family.

The now legendary Fonda photo shows her with diminutive Vietnamese women examining an antiaircraft weapon, implying in the rightist imagination that she relished the thought of killing those American pilots innocently flying overhead.

It's really going back to the most basic processes of examining what a business does and why it's successful. The availability of information available to investors is vastly greater than it used to be and I think that is to everybody's advantage.

Examining the oyster is an accessible way to take on the issue of urban development. Even though I'm from New England, I never wanted to eat cod that much. Oysters are much better.

The investigators did not arrive at shared final conclusions even though, after jointly examining the evidence, they did agree on facts, findings and recommendations on numerous issues,

By examining the unconventional ways that architects realize that they can wear many hats in the process of positively influencing the build as well as the natural environment, aspiring young designers find themselves in a better position to succeed in a world that is always willing to reward inventiveness over business as usual.

He's there to offer expertise, to explain options and to keep explaining until everything is clearly understood. But the patient, sitting on the examining table in a paper gown with the wind whipping around his knees, is the only person in the room with a decision to make. As such, he makes the decision and gives consent based on the information, which includes risks and benefits weighed against his personal values.

They will not be making a determination on the lawfulness on the NSA program, but rather will determine whether the department's lawyers complied with their professional obligations in connection with examining this program.

They have three heads that they're examining and that's a typical outcome from a suicide bomber, but that's not yet confirmed and that will require further analysis as the evening progresses,

It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

After examining the growth of the market and the status of the competition, we've decided to build a facility that is significant in both scope and quality. We intend to lead the currently underserved downtown gaming and entertainment market and today's announcement reflects that commitment.

The information from these audits will allow the IRS to target its limited resources on examining those taxpayers who most likely to be up to no good, while leaving honest taxpayers alone.

A lot of mine owners mine not only in New Mexico, but in Central America. A revenue agent may be examining books from a foreign country.

The DMCA has chilled the efforts of computer security researchers interested in examining copy-protected CDs.

The commission is still examining the issues. I can't talk about the deliberations that are going on.

The commission, meeting in Botswana last week (October 10 to 14) was examining the security situation in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region with particular emphasis on developments in Angola and the DRC,

You could not invent a more productive place for the city to place its attention. And a conference center may be the trigger that can allow for the infrastructure at the airport to (improve) so that rates can find themselves going higher. We're in the process of examining that right now.

A safety board investigator examining the nut reports that the threads are heavily damaged, ... ... We do not know if the damage occurred before the aircraft's impact with the water or was the result of that impact.

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.

We certainly are examining the challenge they have put forward quite closely.

This was a difficult decision to make but after examining what was best for myself and my family, I have accepted a position with the Kansas City chiefs.

There's a pre-season shift to examining gasoline because heating oil worries have subsided. Demand is pretty good for this time of year. The fall in prices seems to have led to increased consumption.

There were inconsistent and false explanations in some cases given to auditors examining a number of these charges.

This kind of controversy is actually pretty frequent. It pretty typically arises because several people are working in the same area and examining the same thing.

(Carrie) loved examining people and relationships. She loved this idea of human contact and looking and observing, and Meredith is completely the opposite. She would like not to be touched. She would like not to be hugged.

I call on the Iranian authorities to choose cooperation and trust by seriously examining

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.