Reviews Quotes - Page 5

• The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, War, Mean

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The best kind of performance review is no performance review

  Aubrey Daniels

  Kind, Performance Review, Performances

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• My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.

  Henry Czerny

  Dad, Bags, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

  Dennis Brown

  People, Albums, Looks

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• No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Criticism, Greater

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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• In our swamp of media sensationalism and group-speak, BOSTON REVIEW stands out as a bold voice for reason and argument, one of the very, very few places that offers intelligence, integrity, and variety.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Integrity, Media, Boston

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• It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

  Judith Crist

  Voice, Criticism, Essentials

  "Judith Crist: The Lady Has No Respect" by William Rice in The Tuscaloosa News (p. 10), November 23, 1968.

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• Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

  John Updike

  New York, Book, Cutting

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.216, Random House

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• You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.

  Brian McKnight

  Song, Hurt, Children

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• If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks

  Susan Egan

  Risk, Enough, Ifs

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• American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.

  Andy Rooney

  Clothes, Firsts, Appearance

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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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• I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Reading, Cutting

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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