Critical Quotes - Page 13

• In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail.

  Brené Brown

  Scarcity, World, Failing

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut off critical funding, stopped the building of new infrastructure, dissolved powerful alliances and seeded America with doubt over our ability to free ourselves from petroleum.

  Josh Tickell

  Powerful, Cutting, America

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• 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

  Ocean, Marine, Ecosystems

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• I am deeply activated by a sense of history, and have been since I was a tiny child. Really feeling that these were the times, we were the people, this was the most critical time in human history. Other people thought their times were the pinnacle and this is it. This is where we really, together, make a decision of whether to evolve or perish.

  Jean Houston

  Children, People, Decision

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• In a world such as ours, where we have to cross the great divide of otherness or we will not survive, love is perhaps the most critical aspect that is there in our humanity, to both activate and to practice.

  Jean Houston

  Love Is, Practice, Humanity

  "Soul Speaking and Truth Telling: A Conversation with Jean Houston". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 23, 2013.

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• The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be, to have the patience to start and let the work teach you, to be willing to lead when you need to lead, and to listen. To have a sense of generosity and empathy, but not over-empathy, because accountability is so critical to building solutions that work.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Dream, Humility, Generosity

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• Never again will we have this good a chance as we now have to find an enduring place for ourselves within the natural systems that keep us alive. It's a sweet spot in history. That's why this is such a critical time.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sweet, Alive, Chance

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• Climate change is critical to me because I'm a parent; I feel a sense of responsibility to the future. I'm not going to be around to see its worst effects, which are going to be hitting in the 2030s, '40s, '50s, but my kids will.

  James Cameron

  Kids, Responsibility, Parent

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• I eat mostly vegan, try to get enough sleep. For me, that's really critical.

  Jorja Fox

  Sleep, Trying, Vegan

  "CSI Actress Jorja Fox: On Finding Balance". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think Donald Trump's reaching out and supporting John McCain and Kelly Ayotte in particular, and Paul Ryan, who had been critical of him, you know, a couple of days earlier, shows that he has the ability and the understanding to realize that there are going to be disagreements and you've got to be able to reach out to the entire party.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Couple, Party, Thinking

  "'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Morell". abcnews.go.com. August 7, 2016.

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• Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

  Taylor Dane

  Animal, Hunting, Water

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• The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore.

  Al Gore

  World, Truth Is, Juncture

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Translators who choose to work on canonized writers can usually lean on an extensive critical apparatus around either the author or the book in question, especially in the case of writers like [Honore] Balzac and [Emil] Zola.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Book, Zola, Cases

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To have to watch myself in a way that was constructively critical was really good for me because it made me a little bit more easy on myself because I wasn't allowed to walk away screaming.

  Natalie Portman

  Way, Watches, Littles

  "Natalie Portman talks directing her first movie and why you'll never see her on social media". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 17, 2016.

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• I'd love to meet Julian [Assange], and time permitting, and his will permitting, I'm sure it will happen at some point. Even though he's been very critical of the film [The Fifth Estate], he's been very polite about me and my work, and I feel the same way about him.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Way, Film, Assange

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• It is important to stop being critical and judging ideas as good or bad because I think if somebody doesn't have a lot of experience you worry their idea is going to be bad, it's not going to be good enough, if not going to be active enough and so you can start to think critically about people's suggestions or what they bring to it but once you get out of that and think whatever they come up with is the right thing right now and so I'm just going to build on it just makes everything so much easier and better.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• I think we are used to being critical and evaluating ideas.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Ideas, Used

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• When I became Prime Minister, I looked back on what was done before – what were the policies and actions before – and I thought that I need to be critical if I’m going to do anything at all.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Needs, Done, Action

  "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.

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• Of course, the UK is a significant economy that makes up a quarter of American exports to the EU, more than 50 percent of our exports in certain sectors and over 25 percent of the government procurement opportunities we have in Europe. Brexit reduces the size of the TTIP deal for the United States, and there will need to be an adjustment of expectations accordingly, but Brexit underscores the value of reaching an agreement at this critical moment in the evolution of Europe.

  Michael Froman

  Opportunity, Government, Agreement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think we have started accelerating over the past years. It's a modernization of NATO. It's at air, it's at sea, it's undersea, it's in cyber. Estonia in 2007, hit by Russian cyber-attacks. So what you see there with those exercises are critical.

  Michael Leiter

  Exercise, Past, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way white supremacist aesthetics more often than not informs her presentation of self and yet still acknowledge her beauty.

  Bell Hooks

  Self, White, Appreciate

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• German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a critical test in her political career. Merkel has been under increasing pressure over the European migrant crisis, and recent polls suggest Angela Merkel, who's been the German leader for more than a decade, could lose an election in her political home state.

  Rachel Martin

  Home, Careers, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As with any music that one feels quite close to, I'm very critical, too. I care a lot. I pay a lot of attention.

  Sarah Harmer

  Attention, Care, Pay

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Because I'm a musician aspiring to write good stuff and put on good shows, I'm hyperaware of what they're doing and what they're putting out. But listening now in a less critical way, I'm appreciating and admiring it even more.

  Sarah Harmer

  Writing, Appreciate, Listening

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours - things that have less to do with his artistic work than have to do with the critical and aesthetic environment - that perhaps he does have to worry about whether or not he is writing too fast. But then also, perhaps he should worry about getting as many plays on as possible before the inevitable ax falls.

  Edward Albee

  Fall, Writing, Play

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