Critical Quotes

• 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

• 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

• The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

  

  Michael Novak
  • Truth
  • Appreciate
  • Critical

• No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two.

  

  William J. Bernstein
  • Thinking
  • Retirement
  • Elements

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Country
  • Critical
  • Online

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

  

  Cecile McLorin Salvant
  • Doubt
  • Critical

• 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

• 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

• Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

  

  William James
  • Destiny
  • Higher
  • Attending

• The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just - not the balancing of benefits.

  

  Carl Cohen
  • Right
  • Issues
  • Critical

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Carver Mead
  • Passion
  • Critical
  • Ingredients

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Community
  • Social
  • Crisis

• All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Vision
  • Innovation
  • Critical

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

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Opinion
  • Film
  • Critical

• To me, I am most critical that we were not tough and physical. It's something we have always done. For whatever reason we didn't do that to the ability we're capable of, and that's my fault, along with my staff.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Reason
  • Ability
  • Fault

• 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
  • Series
  • Critical

• 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
  • Differences
  • Approach
  • Pot

• 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

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