Critical Quotes - Page 33

• Governance allows organizations...t o use critical data to drive the organization.

  Dick Taylor

  Data, Organization, Use

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• Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

  W. H. Auden

  Mean, Pleasure, Guides

  1963 The Dyer's Hand,'Reading'.

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• Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

  T. S. Eliot

  Race, Creative, Mind

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.84, Broadview Press

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• Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

  Bill Walton

  Inspiration, Reflection, Soul

  "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.

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• In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Insanity, Feelings

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

  Vinton Cerf

  Effort, Bears, Given

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• My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

  Shelby Foote

  Book, Successful, Firsts

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• There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

  Max Baucus

  Past, Rights, Abuse

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• Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.

  Israel Shenker

  Hero, Self, Passionate

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

  Derek Bok

  Thinking, Practice, Effort

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• Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.

  Derek Bok

  Senior, College, Thinking

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• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Historical, Principles, Different

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• The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

  Moss Hart

  Theatre, Sadism, Kind

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Men, Suffragists, Consent

  "Freedom or death". Emmeline Pankhurst's Speech in Hartford, Connecticut, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 1913.

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• Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Islands, Erosion, Wetlands

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• 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

  Home, Long, Demand

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• I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

  Diane Wakoski

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Past, Assessment, Self

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

  Federico Mayor Zaragoza

  Love You, People, Criticism

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• I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Film

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• Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

  Johnny Miller

  Air, Trying, Looks

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• It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

  Elizabeth Warren

  People, Tables, Financial

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• It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

  Ted Cruz

  Foundation, Sound, Constitution

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• Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.

  Andrew Zuckerman

  Wisdom, Needs, Process

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• Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

  Robert Pozen

  People, Goal, Decision

  "How To Delegate Responsibility To Other People" by Aimee Groth, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2013.

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