Critical Quotes
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I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.
Cecile McLorin Salvant -
You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity.
Steve Nash
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Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.
Edna Longley -
The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
Rian Johnson -
As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.
David Corn -
I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.
Sunil Gangopadhyay -
I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.
Ray LaMontagne -
I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.
Teju Cole
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Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.
Celso Amorim -
If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion.
Carver Mead -
Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.
Sue Gardner -
You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.
Saul Bellow -
Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.
Edna Longley -
The safety of my opponent was critical to me.
Bret Hart
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Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.
Rick Larsen -
A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.
Erna Solberg -
I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.
Paul O'Neill -
I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.
Nelly Ben Hayoun -
There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.
Michael Eric Dyson -
The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.
Terence McKenna
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Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.
Evgeny Morozov -
Bernard Leach was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men Leach and Shoji Hamada.
Warren MacKenzie -
All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.
Eric Ries -
And so they discussed it seriously, Abbie who knew that one may laugh with a child but at him, and Laura, who knew that Grandma was one unfailing source of sympathy and understanding in a world which was beginning to be critical.
Bess Streeter Aldrich