Critical Quotes - Page 2

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious way so as to clarify the position as desired is Capablanca's own.

The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.

This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a book to have and to read: an important and richly detailed study of the cultural, economical and social-political context of twentieth-century design in the Netherlands.

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.

When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.

I'm very honored and thankful if someone says something nice about my playing, but in general I'm very critical of what I do.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Creative energy is more critical than learning.

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

I'm real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I'm completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.

It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'

Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.

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

The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.