Critical Quotes · Page 85

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to…

— Derek Bok

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

— Adam Schiff

My first novel was a critical success in a matter of weeks.

— Christine Leunens

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the…

— Bill Gates

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have…

— Jan Schakowsky

It is critical that the world captures every last bit of energy efficiency, if we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough…

— Christiana Figueres

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to…

— Bell Hooks

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit…

— Iain Duncan Smith

Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up…

— Edna Longley

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

— John Grierson

“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring…

— Alan Sokal

Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just aseasily…

— Barbara Coloroso

We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films…

— Charles Burnett

What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our…

— Thomas Berry

While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting…

— Mark Udall

Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If…

— E. P. Thompson

I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging…

— Michael Greger

Removing a wall, whether it's a critical supporting wall or a non-essential dividing wall, isn't rocket science.

— Bryan Baeumler

It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.

— Bill Gurley

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

— David Brooks

Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage…

— Michael Lewis

We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor…

— Ali al-Naimi

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a…

— Albert Einstein

Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us.…

— M. Russell Ballard

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical…

— Oswald Chambers