Critical Quotes

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.

I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.

Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes, because unless there is accountability the revolution will totally atrophy.

The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.

Really, a critical matter in the public service is radically to improve the quality of management.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's not life and death.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.

There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.

It has never been more critical that a leader step forward to accelerate our understanding of cancer - and champion the effort to finally defeat it. That leader will be the Duke Cancer Institute.

I'm so critical, especially of the movies I do. If the movie flows and I buy it, that's important. Beyond it working, if I buy the character, especially if I'm close to the character.

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].

The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters.

Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.

constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter.

People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.

I was taught that the most hardworking nurse is found at the dirtiest part of the clinical ward.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself

Some parents whenever their children have an independent thought they wrap them up in warm ignorance and send them to bed

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Speak truth even if you be aloneFor truth hath no friend but itselfKhoiSan Book of Wisdom

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined for the realisationof their dreams.

Treat your mind like a museum, not a warehouse

One of the critical factors that make people’s dreams become nightmares is that they don’t know there is a cost to be paid!

Information had become a critical tool that you can use to raise your bar across every barrier towards excellence. Deny this fact and maintain your bar wherever it was without even a millimeter lift.

To some people independent though is heresy and critical thought blasphemy

Refuse to blame yourself for not being 'good enough

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.