Critical Eye Quotes

#1. And when had a critical eye ever helped me, really? Nobody likes the girl who points out all the inherent sexism on The Bachelor. But people are charmed byt the girl kvelling about nail art, boba tea, and the homeopathic benefits of ayahuasca.

Mindy Kaling

#2. Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.

Adam Green

#3. Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each day they are assigned to view the world with a critical eye and a detached sense of intimacy.

Gay Talese

#4. Don't let your good nature cloud your critical eye. The critical eye should always be cold and clear.

Stephen King

#5. Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Louis Sullivan

#6. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. 'The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl,

Gregory David Roberts

#7. There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

Naguib Mahfouz

#8. Whoa, Lone Star," he said, laughing as he looked Zane up and down with a critical eye. "You'll have to buy me dinner before you get that far."

"I already bought you dinner," Zane pointed out as he righted himself and sat down.

"And he's already gotten that far!" Mark added.

Abigail Roux

#9. Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

Paul Johnson

#10. But you have to look at your work with an honest critical eye. Work on the things that you need work on. Scare yourself. Surprise yourself. If you don't like the way it's going, you have complete control over changing the course. That's one of the best things about doing this.

Brian Michael Bendis

#11. Just make games for yourself and try to have a critical eye to what you do. If you genuinely like the game, there will be other people who like it as well.

Markus Persson

#12. A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

Bernard Malamud

#13. Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall
discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied.

Ann Voskamp

#14. I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

Annabelle Selldorf

#15. If kittens do not receive visual input between thirty and eighty days after birth (a window of time now known as the critical period), it is too late: the unused eye is blind forever.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#16. And suddenly that we were laughing out loud, laughing as if there were no power left in us save laughter.

Ayn Rand

#17. I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

Jeff Bridges

#18. I remember, when I saw the first 'Austin Powers' movie, I was blown away by how fun and original it was.

Mike Scully

#19. I can only be myself, I'm sorry that's hell for you.

Ashlee Simpson

#20. That's advanced capitalism for you: The player making the maximum capital investment gets the maximum critical information in order to reap the maximum desired profit with maximum capital efficiency - and nobody bats an eye.

Haruki Murakami

#21. I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?

Gael Garcia Bernal

#22. There's no reason that young girls shouldn't feel like they can't smash people on the field. Nothing dirty. You want to keep it clean. You just want to play hard. Get your jersey dirty, shorts dirty, and just have fun out there.

Carli Lloyd

#23. Creativity ... involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.

Oliver Sacks

#24. [Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at you, I will make you uncomfortable, and culturally we have a difficulty of staring and being stared at.

Pedro Meyer

#25. Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards,
And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.

John Keats

#26. What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.

Nadya Suleman

#27. Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.

Stefan Molyneux

#28. You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.

Saul Bellow

#29. The sun of that chilishness goes on shining even when the larger bodies of hotter stars have risen to smelt you and cover you with their influence. The recenter stars may be more critical, more in the eye, but that earlier sun still remains a long time.

Saul Bellow

#30. Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts ... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

Winston Churchill

#31. Often really what you need is someone who will believe in you, who will encourage you to believe in yourself.

Gail Kelly

#32. I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art,

James Agee

#33. It won't be disagreeable," he said. "It can be made quite enjoyable."
"Oh, it had better be," she said tartly. "I've heard plenty over the years on your amatory prowess. If I'm not on the roof crowing, I will consider myself disappointed.

Sherry Thomas

#34. Because I never thought anyone would listen to me," she filled in the answer before Greg even had a chance to phrase the question. "I never thought anyone would care enough to make it all stop.

R.P. Rochford

#35. The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

Olivier Theyskens

#36. To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out.

Thomas Haden Church

#37. If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

Epictetus

#38. I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions.

Missy Higgins