Critical Quotes

1238 Critical quotes by 996 unique authors

The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on… — Marvin J. Ashton
I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight… — Boyd K. Packer
A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to. There… — Dave Barry
Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties. — Christopher Hitchens
Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person]. — Darrel Ray
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze… — Oswald Chambers
What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates… — Claire Vaye Watkins
Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are… — Robert Kiyosaki
I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it's done. As an active… — Tom Sachs
A key part of helping startups is providing them with a G/SCORE that measures a company on the path to sustainability. We score companies from… — Chris Shipley
Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security. — Rick Larsen
The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical… — Alain Robbe-Grillet
Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders… — Osama bin Laden
While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush… — David Talbot
Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties. — Jamie Whyte
The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their… — Dan Geer
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.… — Jacob Bronowski
The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America. — Laura Bush
The Law of the Few,... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger. — Malcolm Gladwell
What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it… — Henry Petroski
I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live… — Bruce Sterling
Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there… — John Mayall
If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the… — Dorothy E. Denning
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention. — Mark Shields

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