Critical Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world.

  Al Gore

  Running, White, People

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• That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

  Richard Lugar

  Children, School, Responsibility

  "What I've Learned: Senator Dick Lugar (R, Ind.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 21, 2010.

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• We must have systems of checks and balances to make sure that those people who are making critical decisions for our country are held accountable, and nowhere is that more important than in the area of national security.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Country, Critical Decisions, People

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• Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Intellectual, Fiction, Stories

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• Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

  Jon Meacham

  Religious, Elements, Given

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• Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.

  Donald Knuth

  Strong, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Computer Programming as an Art". Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 1974.

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• I am critical of myself.

  Jason Babin

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• I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.

  Sunil Gangopadhyaya

  Trying, Done, Zealot

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• The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

  Rian Johnson

  People, Boards, Bricks

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• Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.

  Mark Parker

  Order, Design, Innovation

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• The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Garden, Eden

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

  Black Francis

  Jobs, Definitions, Truth Is

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• I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Country, People, Energy

  "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Religion & Liberty Journal Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of depression, discontent, and anxiety in the garden of your mind. Luckily, the opposite is also true. Consistently planting positive, healthy, constructive thoughts will yield a crop of beautiful feelings, such as gratitude, love, and joy.

  Sue Thoele

  Beautiful, Weed, Gratitude

  Sue Patton Thoele (2008). “The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart”, p.52, New Harbinger Publications

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• Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.

  Samantha Abeel

  Depression, Lonely, Mean

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• When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Differences, Limits

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• One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.

  Naomi Klein

  Food, Fall, Loss

  "Climate change is the fight of our lives - yet we can hardly bear to look at it" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2014.

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• What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

  Walter Lippmann

  Truth, Errors, Myth

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Self, Would Be

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.475, Princeton University Press

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• The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Solitude, Loner, May

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For I am nothing if not critical.

  William Shakespeare

  Critics, Ifs

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 118

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• The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and attitudes towards each other. The children's books come from the reverse. They're more supportive, since we're living in a time where we talk more about kids and do less, we talk about balancing the budget and we do it by cutting education.

  Jules Feiffer

  Children, Attitude, Book

  "Feiffer backs into another success" by Dennis Michael, www.cnn.com. January 31, 1996.

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• Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Order, Doe

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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