Critical Quotes

Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country.

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

Iraq may not be the war on terror itself, but it is critical to the outcome of the war on terror, and therefore any advance in Iraq is an advance forward in that.

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

Kind of the critical acclaim of this movie [La La Land] is that it's striking a chord with the public in a way that has been really beautiful and powerful.

In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even hours, making early detection critical.

Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass.

I still give myself the right to be highly critical of others, though.

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

I want to remain that family farmer independence, which I think is so critical to this country. I think it's helped build this country.

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

I eat mostly vegan, try to get enough sleep. For me, that's really critical.

For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.

My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators.

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

I think that Donald Trump has faced an unprecedented avalanche of critical coverage when he was running and frankly, I think, it in part he owes his victory to that.

The leverage Wall Street has to change the world is greater than technology. At a very young age, you're in the room with CEOs, making critical decisions. It should be exciting. It is exciting.

The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.

Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.

Lunar mining is absolutely critical for the development of fusion sources. I'm a very strong proponent of the development of nuclear power, of fusion power.

Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the time.

In every circumstance, though the nation has liberated already and we have worked for the nation, or we have not, providing the foundation for critical thinking to the people is still important.

The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

It is hard for women not to be overly self critical, I am no exception!

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.

Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make critical statements about anybody, unless those statements are malicious.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.

The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.

I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).

I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity.

The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

People don't understand that my films is not about being scandalous - it's about being critical of our own society.

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

Beetroot, garlic, lemon ... and buy a bottle of olive oil. All these things are very critical.

Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.