Testing Yourself Quotes

• Love testing yourself more than fearing loosing

  Ron Clarke

  Testing

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• To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

  Rashad Evans

  Fighting, Becoming, Complacent

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• Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.

  Mike Tyson

  May, Tests, Way

  "Mike Tyson: 'You Have To Feel Comfortable Being Uncomfortable'". Interview with David J. Parnell, www.forbes.com. November 18, 2014.

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• Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

  Burt Rutan

  Understanding, Marketing, Testing

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• Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Motivational, Sports, Boxing

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 17, 2015

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• Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Advertising, Advertisement Negative

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.

  Jordana Brewster

  Baby, Fun, Car

  The AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• 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.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Kindness, People, Encounters

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• As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heart, Defeat, Good And Bad

  "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• 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.

  Nate Silver

  Real, Answers, World

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• I love performing ! It's true that you're only as good as your last show. You have to keep testing yourself and keep that lump in your throat before you go on.

  Delbert McClinton

  Goes On, Lasts, Performing

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• I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. And everyone has that kind of curiosity of how far can you go, how far can you take it. I think it's always good testing yourself.

  Christian Bale

  Jobs, Thinking, Makeup

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.

  Sean Penn

  Country, Comfort, Passages

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

  Bassam Tibi

  Mean, Islam, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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