Critical Quotes
You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
Exercise and good nutrition helped make me what I am today and are critical in allowing me stay on top of my game.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.
Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.
Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.
It is not the self -critical who reveals his humility ( for does not everyone have some how to put up with himself? ). Rather, it is the man who continues to love the person who has criticized him.
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.
Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.
We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.
One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.
We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.
You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voice.
Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.
You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.
Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done, what the AU is simply saying is that what is critical, what is the priority, is peace. That is priority number one now.
Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
Technology has a critical role in realizing the vision of a Digital India - the power of 125 crore connected Indians.
During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions
I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.
The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.
To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.
I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights.
The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.
Believing that you can achieve (and deserve) all that you want in your life is a critical step to your success. Don't waste your life believing you can't.
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.
I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.