Quotes About Critical

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we're told.

As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location

As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location. Obviously these holes were in the right locations, because I was convalescing, not decomposing.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

We've been living with this myth that somehow government investment in research has not been critical to economic growth.

Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

I still want to be sassy and critical, but I can do it without having to be mean or nasty.

I think it's really important to start thinking about infrastructure as essential national security.

Reality has a deep dimension often operating below the surface of empirical experience. To think otherwise is to commit what critical realists call the epistemic fallacy, namely, to reduce what is to what we can empirically observe. That is a debilitating move.

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

the first rule—he calls it the rule of rules—is the art of challenging what is appealing.

If one must have faith in order to believe something, or believe in something, then the likelihood of that something having any truth or value is considerably diminished.

Sei que não sou o único que não se importa nem um pouco se ilusões religiosas forem ridicularizadas, mas se fosse o único, ainda assim não daria a mínima.

EQ is so critical to success that it accounts for 58 percent of performance in all types of jobs.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

Jangan percaya begitu saja pada apa yang disebut sebagai sejarah

The Templars realized that the secret lay not only in possessing the global map of the currents, but also in knowing the critical point, the Omphalos, the Umbilicus Telluris, the Navel of the World, the Source of Command.

De omnibus dubitandum (Doubt everything)

energy densities (energy stored per unit of mass or volume, critical for energy storage and portability)

This was a civilized country. The fascists could never gain a hold here. That was the received wisdom, anyway. But Germany too had been a civilized country. No one could predict what might happen in any country when the numbers of the dispossessed reached a critical mass. Anyone who promised salvation would find a following.

But Germany too had been a civilized country. No one could predict what might happen in any country when the numbers of the dispossessed reached a critical mass. Anyone who promised salvation would find a following.

Integrity matters • Think like a customer • Spirited fun •   Be quick, but don't hurry (borrowed from legendary basketball coach John Wooden) • Employees are critical • Small details are huge • Take care of each other