Critical Quotes · Page 29

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

— James Nicoll

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

— Paulo Freire

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and…

— Chris Ware

[Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the…

— David Brooks

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief…

— George Eliot

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

— Robert Genn

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

— Tobey Maguire

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

— Ken Ham

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't…

— Paul McCartney

It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to…

— William Lacy Clay, Jr

SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise…

— Dan Maffei

The consumer has become increasingly sophisticated in the way they obtain and digest information - of the simple reason that they've become…

— Martin Lindstrom

There is no end to the good we can do, to the influence we can have with others. Let us not dwell…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a…

— Alexander Kotov

Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our…

— Faye Wattleton

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there.…

— John Henry Jowett

Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at…

— Al Gore

The hunting season is sacred. It's been sacred in my life since birth. I've never missed a hunting season in 64 years.…

— Ted Nugent

Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted…

— Walter Scott

Based on my experience as a prosecutor in Miami, illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing this country. As…

— Janet Reno

I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a…

— Charles Gwathmey

Most people sabotage themselves because they aren't mindful in the moment. Let your daily actions be governed by your goals & dreams.…

— Jillian Michaels

I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how…

— Dean Spade

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

— Sidney Hook

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

— Eli Broad

It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way…

— Ted Dekker

“It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Everybodys saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers…

— Sue Gardner

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

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

— Bruce Springsteen

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

— Tim Kaine

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step…

— David Harsanyi

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

— Hilary Mantel

Without critical acclaim, you are just a successful commercial director, and nothing more.

— Priyadarshan

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

— W. Somerset Maugham

If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something…

— Damon Lindelof

“Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.”

— Suzy Kassem

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.

— Scott Bakula