Critical Quotes · Page 20

I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him…

— Liv Tyler

Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and…

— Arthur Blank

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

— Bell Hooks

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

— David Hilbert

There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's…

— Al Franken

Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge…

— Daniel Levitin

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as…

— Jessamyn West

What you need to do is protect the structures and dynamics that are helping the people choose. The only thing that we…

— Tariq Ramadan

Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society…

— Barack Obama

I don't want to be overly critical about our military or our intelligence people, because it's a tough job. But neither should…

— Orrin Hatch

I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because…

— Neil Patrick Harris

Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm…

— Oliver Sacks

[Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at…

— Pedro Meyer

One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer…

— Bruce Hoffman

Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Surprisingly, it's forgiveness, not guilt, that increases accountability. Researchers have found that taking a self-compassionate point of view on a personal failure…

— David D. Burns

For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and…

— Mary Ritter Beard

“Those who correct others should watch for the Holy Spirit to go ahead of them and touch a person's heart. Learn to…

— Francois Fenelon

Israel produces and stores chemical weapons. So therefore the US will prevent the Chemical Weapons Convention from being imposed on the Middle…

— Noam Chomsky

I would like to see a critical mass of very gifted anarchists come together in an appropriate place in order to do…

— Murray Bookchin

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future,…

— Erich Fromm

To prevent a crippling attack on our nation's critical networks, U.S. companies and the federal government must work together to combat those…

— Michael McCaul

My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices…

— Walter Kohn

We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

— Judd Rose

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my…

— Patty Griffin

I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.

— Chris Paine

I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business…

— John Caudwell

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

— Winston Churchill

The Germans are very critical. They like to drag acts down. They make you feel you're not so good - not so…

— Rob Pilatus

My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of…

— Brad Willis

Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.

— Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

— Sam Harris

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into…

— John Henry Jowett

Hopefully, one of my gifts will be that I'll be able to, you know, say something that's I guess considered critical without…

— Aaron Boone

Do you know what chaos stands for? C-H-A-O-S stands for Critical Hate And Overwhelming Stupidity.

— Gary Busey

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

— Paul Weyrich

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

— Susan Fiske