Critical Quotes - Page 36

There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that.

Hilary Rosen

Real, Opportunity, Talking

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Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

Jeff Raikes

People, Tools, Use

"Microsoft buys in Norwegian know-how" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 08, 2008.

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For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

Mariano Rajoy

Country, Enemy, Unemployment

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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

Sam Raimi

People, Obsessed

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I am fully aware of the critical moments we face as a country.

Antonis Samaras

Country, Critical Moments, Faces

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National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Edward Sapir

Inquiry, Language, Interest

Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.118, Univ of California Press

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Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country.

John Boehner

Country, Thinking, People

"John McCain Disagrees With John Boehner: Mitt Romney Was Fine To Criticize Obama On Russia" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.

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Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Humanity, Wish

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Plants can help you they have a very strong vibrational force. If you've made friends with several of them, they will come and aid you when you've reached that critical moment and you're at a crossroads of knowledge.

Frederick Lenz

Strong, Nature, Buddhism

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It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with.

Frederick Lenz

Sex, Heart, Buddhism

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You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.

Frederick Lenz

Running, Home, Health

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The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

David Talbot

Country, War, Media

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Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire.

Robin Thicke

Appreciate, Inspire

"Listen Up, Gals: Duets' Robin Thicke Sets the Standard for What You Want in a Guy. Paula Patton Is a Lucky Lady!" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. June 28, 2012.

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It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

Fred Upton

People, Benefits, Might

"Super Congress Deficit Committee Member Fred Upton: No Cuts To Social Security Benefits" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2011.

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One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

Joshua Waitzkin

Unique, Issues, Voice

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In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.

Zach Wamp

Safety, World, Steps

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... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.

Paulo Freire

Teaching, Reading, Learning

Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

Charlotte Bunch

Years, Leader, Style

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I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

Norman Lamm

Moving, Errors, Government

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People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

Ben Mezrich

People, Rumor, Facts

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In "Three Cups of Tea" I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve.

Greg Mortenson

Military, Warrior, Curves

"Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

Nate Mendel

Understanding, Mind, Hiv

"Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. October 03, 2000.

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My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters.

Will Self

Character, Ideas, Two

"In the beginning" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2007.

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I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

Peter Eisenman

Self, Fans, Kind

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The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.

John C. Maxwell

Motivational, Successful, Issues

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