Critical Quotes - page 34

What kind of grad student do you take? "I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their teachers. (Lynn Margulis)
The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not. View quote
Sue Grafton
The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself. View quote
Ricky Gervais
It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape. View quote
George Clooney
Homo Sapiens wouldn't have made it, and everything would be different! Television would be ... you know, Book of the Month club on television would be: Neanderthal presenter: "And now we have the professor ... uh ... whaddayou think of this book?" Neanderthal professor: "Wha' ...?" Presenter: "What do you think of this book, in a critical way?" View quote
Eddie Izzard
Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility. View quote
Camille Paglia
Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. View quote
Camille Paglia
The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change. View quote
Amy Goodman
By the time we made Abbey Road, John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself. View quote
Paul McCartney
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. View quote
Will Self
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. (Will Self)
I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims. View quote
Bill Nye
People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not. View quote
Lionel Richie
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues. View quote
Jeanne Shaheen
There is always that in poetry which will not be grasped, which cannot be described, which survives our ardent attention, our critical theories, our late-night arguments. View quote
Adrienne Rich
Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history it is an act of survival. View quote
Adrienne Rich
Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. View quote
Johan Huizinga
John was in exactly the right place at the right time to understand manufacturing at its deepest level - at a cellular level. His apprenticeship culminated in an insight that was critical to Fiat's survival. He noticed a persistent gap between what happens on the factory floor of, say, a headlight plant in Birmingham, and what information filters up to headquarters. View quote
John Elkann
In a stroke of imaginative genius our understanding of consciousness was radically transformed, but in an entirely unexpected way. Critical clues came from diffuse nerve nets and, even more extraordinarily, plant neurobiology. Banished forever was the idea that the brain alone was the seat of consciousness. Rather, it is an 'antenna' embedded in a hyperdimensional matrix. The depths of reality are only now being uncovered, but now the springs of imagination, intuition, abstraction and even pre-cognition are revealed. What was once called the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics was simply a clue to a superbly structured universe where mind is an integral component, instantiated at the big bang or maybe even before? Future exploration offers dizzying prospects, but we are not the first to venture forth. Far in advance of the emergence of human consciousness, innumerable galactic civilisations had slipped into what we now call the Mortimer Manifold. View quote
Simon Conway Morris
The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples .... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought .... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation. (Gustave Le Bon)
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths. View quote
Sam Harris
John Carey, who had once buried The Metropolitan Critic, hailed Unreliable Memoirs as the written equivalent of sliced bread. Instantly I revised my opinion of his critical prowess upwards. View quote
Clive James
Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical. View quote
Mother Teresa
At no point I have ever said: Freud is wrong, Buddha is wrong, liberals are wrong, conservatives are wrong. I have only suggested that they are true but partial. My critical writings have never attacked the central beliefs of any discipline, only the claims that the particular discipline has the only truth - and on those grounds I have often been harsh. But every approach, I honestly believe, is essentially true but partial, true but partial, true but partial. And on my own tombstone, I dearly hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial... View quote
Ken Wilber