Quotes About Critical

Rigakos suggests that the term "security" has become analytically useless and should be shifted to "pacification". Pacification, he writes, can excite our critical imaginations in new ways. Pacification captures the mobilization of policong in a manner that sheds light on the objects, history and politics of such interventions. Thus, rather than obscuring global capitalist relations, pacification unpacks these connections.

The work of both Piaget and Kinsey suggests that while biology is always a dominant influence on behavior, environment is critical to its expression. Even

Science requires a rational audience.

Work gets done on the basis of its urgency alone.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic and critical temperament. It makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

Leadership in today's world has never been so important and at the same time so difficult.

we are in a time when thinking rightly is more important than ever. The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

As we get closer to critical hour, we will make critical decisions.

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you'll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you'll be tempted to say to the people around you, 'How can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

The complex systems that produce and deliver energy are among the most critical of all the "critical infrastructures," and that makes their digital controls tempting targets for cyberattacks.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

A blast, an acceleration, the distillate, the spirit, the history, the weaponized soul of convulsive beauty went critical.

The old pattern is powerful, so make sure to script the critical moves, because ambiguity is the enemy.

It changed their attitude from reactive and critical to active and creative.

You can't script every move—that would be like trying to foresee the seventeenth move in a chess game. It's the critical moves that count.

Moments that break the script are critical for organizational change. They provide a demarcation point between the "old way" and the "new way.

encouragement is critical, because it's self-reinforcing.

You can't script every move—that would be like trying to foresee the seventeenth move in a chess game. It's the critical moves that count. Recall