Trials Quotes - Page 13

• Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Strong, Iron Ore, Fire

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• The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial and error, by selling real products to real people who pay real money.

  Clayton Christensen

  Real, Errors, People

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Clayton Christensen, Kenneth L. Kraemer (2015). “Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained.

  Randy Barnett

  Children, Missing, Drug

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• I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

  Ben Stein

  Teacher, Law, California

  The Onion interview, www.avclub.com. January 27, 1999.

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• What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There's nothing worse than hearing somebody say 'Oh, you made that movie? I thought that movie sucked,' and you have to agree with them, you know?

  David Fincher

  Responsibility, Fire, People

  "David Fincher and Quint talk about everything from A(lien3) to Z(odiac)!!!". Interview with Quint, www.aintitcool.com. January 1, 2008.

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• Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady.

  Stuart Briscoe

  Children, Character, Home

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• The longest-serving Republican Senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, found guilty just a few hours ago on all charges in his corruption trial. Do you know this story? He failed to report he had some work done on his house. Yeah, here's the bad part. You know who did the work? Joe the plumber. Unlicensed.

  Jay Leno

  Alaska, House, Done

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• Three features mark the Anglo-American system as different from all others. One is the extent to which our law is formed in litigation. Another feature is the way we conduct these cases: we pit antagonists against each other, to cast up from their struggles the material of decisions. A third- and largest in the public consciousness- is the trial by jury.

  Charles Rembar

  Struggle, Law, Decision

  Charles Rembar (2015). “The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• Kenny was actually here at Melwood as a 15-year-old schoolboy. He came on trial and he went home afterwards. It was only later that Bill Shankly realised that Dalglish was here as a boy and he went mad! He said 'how did we miss him?' Kenny just had the football brain. He was born with it and you can't give that to people. He had that natural born talent.

  Ian St John

  Football, Home, Boys

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• There are no rules or formulas for success. You just have to live it and do it. knowing this gives us enormous freedom to experiment toward what we want. Believe me, it's a crazy, complicated journey. It's trial and error. It's opportunism. It's quite literally, "Let's try lots of this stuff and see how it works."

  Anita Roddick

  Crazy, Believe, Journey

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• Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.

  Ruth Graham

  Fall, Two Sides, Temptation

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• A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

  Henry Markram

  Cells, Drug, Brain

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• The corporations don't like open courts of law, trials by jury. They want to privatize by pushing people into compulsory arbitration where they win most of the time and the whole process is pretty secret.

  Ralph Nader

  Winning, Law, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Exactly who is this God character who is said to be all-powerful yet needs to hire lawyers to take us to court? Isn't he miffed when someone he had always considered to be a true follower turns to the legal system rather than to prayer? Why would the faithful risk making God look ridiculous by losing a trial on Earth when he is certain to win every trial in heaven?

  Scott Simon

  Powerful, Prayer, Character

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

  Joshua Mohr

  Errors, Trial And Error, Poison

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The film [Sightseers] is really the story of the journey of a relationship, so the killings are almost a metaphor for the trials they go through. We wanted people to identify with the experience of going on holiday and having a quarrel with your wife, boyfriend, whatever. We knew if we didn't crack that it would not be watchable as a film.

  Alice Lowe

  Holiday, Journey, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and then try to form the poem - on a typewriter or on my computer - and, by trial and error, try to find the right shape. I just try to keep forming the poem in different ways until it feels right to me.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Writing, Mean, Errors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time. I was in a very dark place, in lots of foreign cities, far from New York. A lot of personal trials and tribulations took over my life in those years. It might be some time before I see what therapeutic function this book did serve. But for now, it's not even easy to read from it.

  Porochista Khakpour

  New York, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the prosecution, when they said "race is not a factor." It's so dishonest.

  Carl Hart

  Thinking, Race, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated.

  Haskell Wexler

  War, Media, Ideas

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think our legal system needs to be developed. Cases of citizens who are detained and then have to wait much too long for a trial - that is scary, for everyone. When someone commits a crime he needs to be charged quickly. Why does this take so long in many cases? I don't know. Is it because our legal system is still rudimentary? China has promised to modernize its legal system. This has high priority.

  Zhang Xin

  Thinking, Long, Priorities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow locomotion. In our Olympic trials, we celebrate speeds that would be an embarrassment to a bird or a dog or another animal.

  Neal Barnard

  Dog, Animal, Smell

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Well, when people talk about interrogating terrorists, they're acting like this is some sort of law enforcement function. Law enforcement is about gathering evidence to take someone to trial, and convict them. Anti-terrorism is about finding out information to prevent a future attack so the same tactics do not apply.

  Marco Rubio

  Law, People, Acting

  Marco Rubio's speech at the eighth Republican presidential primary debate hosted by ABC News at the St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.cbsnews.com. February 6, 2016.

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• Flying used to be so great but now it's more of a trial.

  Michelle Stuart

  Flying, Used, Used To Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well, almost everything is open - the political documents, the (unintelligible) of cabinet meetings. What has been opened now and what had been closed are things that many governments still close, and that is police files and trial records, trial records of the special courts set up by Vichy. And especially interesting are the trial records of the Purge Trials after the war.

  Robert O. Paxton

  War, Government, Interesting

  "War Crime Investigations Among France's Release Of Vichy Documents". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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