Critical Quotes

• Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

  

  Richard Louv
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Language

• I'm looking for films that can resonate and hopefully have some level of critical importance but also have commercial viability and can put butts in seats. At the end of the day, that is the name of the game. And if you can find that perfect balance, then that's the sweet spot.

  

  Will Packer
  • Perfect
  • Balance
  • Sweet

• You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity.

  

  Steve Nash
  • Adversity
  • Coach
  • Overcome

• But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • Stories

• When people get up on the stage and say, "I've got AIDS," or "I'm in recovery," gosh, it's hard for them. It's like that story touches every person's story. You know, they open their entire humanity up. Storytelling is very important in life. Telling the truth is critical. It's like, again, the melody. The melody of jazz music is the truth, for me.

  

  Cecil Williams
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Stage

• The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Women
  • Family
  • Training

• 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
  • Important
  • Choices
  • Weapons

• 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
  • Reading
  • Choices
  • Eye

• I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Doubt
  • Critical

• Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

  

  Rick Larsen
  • Peace
  • Landscape
  • Interconnected

• You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you should focus solely on the details right in front of you, mind you. You’ve got to look ahead a bit or else you’ll bump into something. You’ve got to conform to the proper order and at the same time keep an eye out for what’s ahead. That’s critical, no matter what you’re doing.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Focus
  • Lose
  • Details

• 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
  • Book
  • Facts
  • Novel

• 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
  • Media
  • Consumers
  • Critical

• 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
  • Growing
  • Humans
  • Musician

• A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

  

  Erna Solberg
  • Ability
  • Economic
  • Possibility

• If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion.

  

  Carver Mead
  • Passion
  • Critical
  • Ingredients

• 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
  • Language
  • Intention
  • Critical

• 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
  • Effort
  • Speak
  • Week

• 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
  • Designer
  • Critical
  • Series

• Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Country
  • Critical
  • Online

• This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Idea
  • Critical
  • Challenged

• 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
  • Laugh
  • Sympathy
  • Critical

• Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Opinion
  • Film
  • Critical

• The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Lessons
  • Critical

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