Quotes About Critical

The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.

On auteur theory: never has a critical movement so thoroughly ignored the one-hit wonders of its artform. Imagine music without these gems—half of pop rock would be gone and musicologists would have nothing to dig up!

Fools speak energetically and talk enthusiastically amongst themselves only on the topic which the news channels keep force feeding into their mind.

main trouble with the average individuals of present-day civilization is that they refuse to think. They prefer "mob thinking". Because everybody else does it, it must be right. The real facts prove the opposite to be the case.

Whatever cannot be seen, conceived at once, thru simple reasoning is humbug, and not science!

One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It's really freaking hard to get critical mass.

If you chart SEC champions over a 20-year period, the one consistent thing to me is you're not going to win if you don't have a quarterback. It's too critical of a position. He decides something every play.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.

With the Raiders, you walk a little bit of a fine line. It's hard to be objective, and it's hard to be critical.

I am a fussy eater. I may eat one dish but it has to be the best.

I am a bit fussy when it comes to films.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Kahlo's own words convinced even a most critical scholar that, in the case of Kahlo, the boundary between art and life was either fluid or non-existent:

Road wins are critical, and it's huge for you as a team when you can pick up three points on the road.

Every possession matters, and everything goes down to the wire.

I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some things just attain critical mass after they're already dead and buried, and I don't know why it was the case with 'The Wire'.

The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don't learn a language early on, it's nigh impossible to become truly fluent.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

I think having a visionary CEO is awesome, and visionary leadership is one thing, but you also need checks and balances on whether this company can withstand a very honest and critical look at itself.

I've witnessed firsthand the critical role suppliers - and especially the best ones - play in Boeing's success.

I'm somewhat wary of being called 'woke' because it feels absolute in a way that I don't think is realistic.