Reviews Quotes - Page 12

• According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Research, Bases

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• The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.

  Ben Brantley

  Long, People, Internet

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• For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one’s progress on the spiritual path and renew one’s determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Spiritual, New Year, Determination

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• Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

  Ron Kind

  Government, Years, Democracy

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• I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Memories, Nurse, Facts

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• I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.

  Seth Godin

  Life, Work, Writing

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• On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

  Avi Arad

  Judging, Going Away, Stuff

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• All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Aggravation, Office, Effort

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• In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life."
  
  (Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009)

  T.C. Boyle

  Football, Cheer, Believe

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• In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Reading, Progress, Saws

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• Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Judicial Review, Favors

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• The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.

  Joe Bastianich

  Wine, Meals, Stories

  "Joe Bastianich reveals restaurants' dark secrets, talks lawsuit" by Vidya Rao and Vidya Rao, www.today.com. May 1, 2012.

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• I try my hardest not to read reviews.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Trying, Hardest

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• Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.

  David Allen

  Details, Needs, Week

  David Allen (2011). “Ready For Anything: 52 productivity principles for work and life”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• One of the most serious [challenges] is increased military spending and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals. Enormous resources are being consumed for these purposes, when they could be spent on the development of peoples, especially those who are poorest. For this reason I firmly hope that, during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to be held this May in New York, concrete decisions will be made towards progressive disarmament, with a view to freeing our planet from nuclear arms

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, New York, Military

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• But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.

  Laurence Housman

  Appreciation, Play, Feet

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• Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

  Seth Godin

  Stars, Book, Perfect

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• Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.

  Holland Taylor

  Osmosis, Mind, Watches

  "Art Talk with Holland Taylor". Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. March 5, 2012.

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• Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Morning, Writing, Sleep

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.51

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• I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

  Paul Goldberger

  Drawing, Looks, Building

  "Apple's New Headquarters" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2011.

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• You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Writing, Years, Generosity

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• When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them

  Rowan Pelling

  Phones, Elderly, Editors

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• It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Film, Genocide, Made

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• The NCI sent (,)...to review our funding(,)...people connected with the nuclear establishment...It was a pretty much foregone conclusion, that if you send people in to review the funding, who stand most to be hurt by this research, the funding will be denied.

  Rosalie Bertell

  Hurt, Dark, People

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• It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of Postal Service abuses. ...We strongly oppose the legislation's infringement of rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.

  John Shattuck

  Exercise, Dark, Rights

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