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Quotes About Critical

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
~ Francois Englert
The raw materials that Australia has in abundance will always be critical to world growth.
~ Gina Rinehart
I can be kind of razor sharp in my disapproval.
~ Jane Lynch
A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.
~ Art Bell
I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
~ Malin Akerman
I get commercial acclaim because of critical acclaim and it is a chain reaction.
~ Vijay Antony
In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.
~ Junot Diaz
Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.
~ Andrew Card
You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.
~ Peter Jackson
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
~ Hilary Mantel
Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.
~ Ryan Holiday
Oh, my gosh, I've never seen a film unless, you know, if I have to go and do ADR, loop-loop. But I don't watch after. I'm too critical.
~ Rene Russo
We all need to be conscious of what news we take as gospel. And we need to maybe be a little bit sceptical about what we digest.
~ Katharine Gun
Finance is about being short-term greedy, rather than thinking about the markets as a critical part of our society that exist to empower the world, rather than to enrich a few.
~ Baiju Bhatt
Do not be swayed by glowing testimonials and fancy brochures.
~ Garrett Sutton
Filozofia nu are voie s? fie edificatoare.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
They don't want an educated populace capable of critical thought, sitting around the kitchen table realizing how badly they're getting fucked!
~ George Carlin
Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.
~ George Carlin
But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.
~ George Eliot
They are a narrow ignorant set, and do more to make their neighbors uncomfortable than to make them better. Their system is a sort of worldly-spiritual cliqueism: they really look on the rest of mankind as a doomed carcass which is to nourish them for heaven.
~ George Eliot
Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. And if you ever wonder why so many things don't work properly any more, or why you can't get any sense out of so many organisations, this is one of the main reasons.
~ Peter Hitchens
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
~ Boris Yeltsin
Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.
~ Jim Lehrer
One of the things that is so important, critical I think, in reading not just the founders but thousands of years as you put it, that discussion about corruption, is that you can't talk about the problem of corruption without talking about human nature.
~ Zephyr Teachout