Quotes About Critical

#1. Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
[Carnap's famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

Rudolf Carnap

#2. For me, I believe comedy's about taking risks, taking chances, working in a safe environment where you're comfortable making a fool of yourself. It's so critical, especially in comedy, to just have all those right pieces in place.

Michael Spiller

#3. The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

Mortimer Zuckerman

#4. Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

Peter Woo

#5. If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.

Bud Grant

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

Paulo Freire

#7. The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values, and slowing their development of critical thinking skills.

Tom Flynn

#8. Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines.

Ryan Holmes

#9. Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.

Christine Milne

#10. Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

Jon Kyl

#11. four critical business issues: broken processes, islands of information, inaccurate measurement, and using yesterday's creative approach.

Andrew Frawley

#12. What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#13. Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

Lynda Resnick

#14. I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you're on a red carpet or not. Even if you're just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in.

Katy Perry

#15. To many, peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. To some - especially those from regions involved in conflict - peacekeeping and efforts to preserve peace are absolutely vital in bringing prosperity and hope for the future.

Kim Yuna

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

Adam Schiff

#17. When a crowd adopts a point of view en masse, all critical thinking stops.

William Powers

#18. Understanding and discovering yourself is a critical aspect of your life

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

Megan Smith

#20. It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.

Jenny Slate

#21. The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.

Rick Perry

#22. I'm just tired of people saying I'm a self-hating Jew because I'm critical of Israel or make fun of old Jewish ladies. I do not hate myself. And Jews who criticize Israel aren't necessarily mentally ill.

Harvey Pekar

#23. All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world.

George Steiner

#24. 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

#25. When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.

Arthur Koestler

#26. It's important that you identify what the best things are in your life. The things that do more than just get you through the day. The things that make you want the next day to come. And once you identify those things, it's critical that you nurture them and keep them strong.

Michael Baron

#27. I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#28. My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.

Amy Ray

#29. [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

#30. Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the war on terror. Obama won't use the word. He's made war on the war on terror.

Charles Krauthammer

#31. I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

Kevin Nash

#32. In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.

Juan Williams

#33. I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.

Dan Lipinski

#34. Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

Parker Palmer

#35. End of the sixties, Keith Blazey interested me to work on GdAlO3, an antiferromagnet on which he had done optic experiments. This started a fruitful cooperation on magnetic phase diagrams, which eventually brought me into the field of critical phenomena.

Heinrich Rohrer

#36. I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I'm stronger for it - and I have a tougher skin as a result.

Rufus Wainwright

#37. I think I'm not uber into the comedy scene, but I love to laugh, especially in our business, where you're always front and center over an extremely, sometimes overly-critical live audience. I think it helps to laugh.

John Cena

#38. Our ability to extinguish new ideas is critical to productivity and to our capacity to scale existing projects. In a team setting, the skeptics - the ones who always question ideas first rather than falling in love with them - are the white blood cells.

Scott Belsky

#39. Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

Francois Hollande

#40. As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

Kara Swisher

#41. If you were searching. I also would have left a small indication that something so important, something so critical to your soul has disappeared. The sole reason a constellation exists is because it's a sum of its parts. To lose one of those parts ... it's painful and irreversible.

Katie McGarry

#42. I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

Bo Gritz

#43. Ultimately, your state of mind determines your circumstances. To realize the outcomes you want, it is critical to recognize and experience the transition from our present thoughts, habits, and actions to new thoughts, habits, and actions.

Darren Johnson

#44. At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

Cliff Stearns

#45. Exy had been a raw point between them since they'd met. It was the critical part of their friendship Andrew refused to acknowledge and Kevin couldn't fix, a dream Andrew wouldn't believe in and Kevin couldn't give up on.

Nora Sakavic

#46. The population explosion is the primary force behind the remaining six groups of critical global events [diminishing land resources, diminishing water resources, the destruction of the atmosphere, the approaching energy crisis, social decline, and conflicts/increasing killing power].

Ron Nielsen

#47. I'm a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I've got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize ... likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.

Maajid Nawaz

#48. We tend not to be especially critical when presented with evidence that seems to confirm our prejudices.

Carl Sagan

#49. Educating the heartis the critical complement to educating the mind.

Stephen R. Covey

#50. To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

Abraham Kuyper

#51. The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human - at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.

Thomas Berry

#52. If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Josh Lanyon

#53. Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.

Clive James

#54. The Christian community continues to exist because the conclusions of the critical study of the Bible are largely withheld from them.

Hans Conzelmann

#55. Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Aristotle.

#56. We will primarily focus on affordable housing, water supply and transport infrastructure, as these are critical for Mumbai. Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

Sharad Pawar

#57. In order to conquer the world of economics with his new theory, it was critical for Keynes to destroy his rivals within Cambridge itself. In his mind, he who controlled Cambridge controlled the world.

Murray Rothbard

#58. He'd spent much of his life wishing he was Kaden, had Kaden's life and family and money... and yes, his girl. And now, at this most critical of times, he desperately wished he could take Kaden's place.

So Kaden could live.

Tymber Dalton

#59. With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don't have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank branches in their neighborhoods.

Elizabeth Warren

#60. We've built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration for the natural environment that is critical to the health of many of our other ocean uses, like food and recreation.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#61. That's the problem dealing with nonwerewolves," I said. "They lack that critical 'you are Alpha, you are right' gene.

Kelley Armstrong

#62. The most important thing we can do to save our oceans is to dramatically expand our efforts to establish new marine protected areas and make sure that critical fish spawning sites and ecosystems remain undisturbed.

Serge Dedina

#63. Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

John Shimkus

#64. [T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.

Massimo Pigliucci

#65. The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.

Mike Svob

#66. The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

W. H. Auden

#67. I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

James Gray

#68. When my time to die comes an angel will be there to comfort me. He will give me peace and joy even at that most critical hour, and usher me into the presence of God, and I will dwell with the Lord forever. Thank God for the ministry of His blessed angels.

Billy Graham

#69. The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.

Jamie Zawinski

#70. Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

Alexander Haig

#71. If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion.

Carver Mead

#72. But at that critical moment, detectives knew there was no way they could get to JFK in time from the hotel in midtown Manhattan.

John Solomon

#73. I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

Valentino Rossi

#74. Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

Dan Savage

#75. Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase.

Domenico Scarlatti

#76. I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

Malin Akerman

#77. Claritypoint: Choose to trust these two critical truths that are the opposites of the two core fears: 1) Your value is infinite and absolute because life is a classroom. 2) Every experience is your perfect classroom journey.

Kimberly Giles

#78. Make a switch, you need to script the critical moves

Chip Heath

#79. Visionaries have the unique ability to dream of what's possible and then make it a reality. We are excited to watch these visionaries use technology to help students develop skills in collaboration, critical thinking and teamwork that they'll need to compete in the global economy.

Michael Dell

#80. As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Basil Rathbone

#81. Look at what is happening in China and in Russia. They have units that are specifically targeted cyber warfare. They are carrying it out. Our critical infrastructure is attacked thousands of times a day.

Marsha Blackburn

#82. I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.

Liv Tyler

#83. I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.

Giovanni Ribisi

#84. Nothing clears out self-righteousness better than serving someone who is critical of you.

Paul E. Miller

#85. Vision is critical to life, whether it is through your eyes or through your mind, seeing where you are going will help you get there. Open up and be aware of what is ahead as best you can.

Richard Morin

#86. I always wanted to be a writer ... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating 'Critical Care' for years. I would go for a whole year and not touch it. And then I'd go back to it.

Richard Dooling

#87. Wishful thinking is more valuable to an artist than critical thinking.

Marty Rubin

#88. You must see yourself run the race over and over, time and time again. You must put yourself in critical positions and see how you would react in those positions before the race so when and if they do happen, the feedback is automatic.

Rod Milburn

#89. Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.

Hank Johnson

#90. Using the risk-based approach presented by the ISPE Guide (i.e., system and component level classification) limited qualification activities to verifying and testing critical aspects of direct impact systems and their critical components.

Robert A. Young

#91. That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about ... If things line up, that's pretty rare.

Richard Linklater

#92. People are more likely to support a change when they have information on it and when they participate in it. So, getting the CHRO information about the transformation and involving the CHRO in the transformation effort are critical to success.

Dave Ulrich

#93. The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#94. My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

Josh Earnest

#95. [Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying first to find whether they are not perhaps wrong. They work with bold conjectures and severe attempts at refuting their own conjectures.

Karl Popper

#96. There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I think that just because you bare your soul or underwear or private moments it doesn't , or necessarily make for entertainment, or good writing, or funny writing.

Mindy Kaling

#97. Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

Julie Bishop

#98. The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.

Henry Cloud

#99. I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

Fady Joudah

#100. This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.

Paul Cellucci