Critical Quotes

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by books at really critical moments. That much I believe.

The more you defend in the face of a critical audience, the more you polarize.

I think we are used to being critical and evaluating ideas.

Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.

Job creation is important I think, but it's not the critical issue for Republicans.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.

Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.

My fathers peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

We need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on the crucial issue what it means to be socially responsible.

Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads to violence.

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

Is it important that you have a strong leadership for your party? I think it's critical.

I think talking's important. I think aspirations are critical.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

The ability to communicate is critical- clearly, frankly, and often.

Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide.

In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans who are not participants.

Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

Sometimes the critics review me harshly for not being critical of government but it's not me who has said I was political.

I am critical of myself.

Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on.

Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.

I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

I'm more interested in...I'm more of a descendent. I'm more critical. It comes from a different place and nowadays the young people know how to make just light entertainment.

The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.

The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor brought critical qualities to the high court that not everybody thinks are qualities - I happen to think they are - her pragmatism and her state craft.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.