Top 80 Critically Quotes

What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.

I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and security, and I take note of the ongoing debate over what course of action should be taken by the international community. All those actions should be taken within the framework of the U.N. Charter, as a matter of principle.

It’s so easy to manipulate an audience, but it’s nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

Energy, health care and education are just three examples of areas in which information and information management are critically important. How are we using our energy? What appliances in homes or business are consuming the most energy? When do they consume it? Can the load be shifted? How efficient are these devices?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership has the potential to reshape America’s relationship with the nations of the Pacific Rim, enhance U.S. leadership in this critically important region, and provide a major boost to our economy.

Critically, you have to remain positive and know you will recover, remembering if you didn’t suffer injuries, you’d be a pretty remarkable competitor in any sport.

From the beginnings of modern monetary theory, in David Hume’s marvelous essays of 1752, ‘Of Money and Of Interest,’ conclusions about the effect of changes in money have seemed to depend critically on the way in which the change is effected.

There’s less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level – forget about the media – than ever before. We’ve never needed people to think more critically than now, and they’ve taken a big nap.

When actors do anti-hero roles, they are critically acclaimed. When heroines do negative roles, they are sidelined from the industry.

‘Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America’s important strategies in space.

I always consider myself as good as my last film. I tend to analyse my work very critically.

After acting in a critically acclaimed film like ‘Kaaka Muttai,’ I didn’t get any offers for more than a year.

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

I know from personal experience just how critically important the work of LifeSite is – not just to me but the whole pro-life movement!

Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.

I guess, at the beginning of any project, I always have the same hope, which is that it’s going to be wildly successful and critically acclaimed, and it’ll be a major thing.

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens – citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance.

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

My dad has always been vocal about critically appreciating me. If I have done a bad job, he will definitely try to correct me with his inputs.

In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both ‘Moby Dick’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’ were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.

For me foreign policy is critically important.

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.

As an actress, I am happy that people are offering me good roles and I am earning success critically and commercially.

Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed.

We will do whatever the government tells us to do, which is a critically important principle of the Chinese market economy, and there is nothing more for discussion about it.

Bejart is almost never performed in New York City; critically, he just gets attacked here.

I am ecstatic that ‘KPC’ was a commercial hit and was critically acclaimed. The 60 days we shot for it were the best days of my life. I still get goosebumps when I think of them.

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

‘Singham’ was one-and-a-half stars all over, and it was one of the biggest hits of my career. It gave me so much respect. People think if it’s not critically acclaimed, you won’t get respect. But that’s not true. Even if you get one star, your film will do well if the audience wants to see it.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

When I came to the West, I saw many, many things for the first time. But I also saw the prosperity of the West critically. It wasn’t really Heaven.

There’s four main pillars to the bow tie – self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent yourself and critically understand how to collaborate and serve others.

When I was 12, I played Dorothy in my community theatre production of ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and it was very critically hailed by my school paper!

Stability in law – particularly constitutional law – is critically important; the Supreme Court would do well to remember that.

The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.

I just never learned to think critically.

Normally skeptical journalists routinely give renewables a pass. The reason isn’t because they don’t know how to report critically on energy – they do regularly when it comes to non-renewable energy sources – but rather because they don’t want to.

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable living and working all around the world, wherever he was assigned.

Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It’s why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It’s why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

When you make a movie outside the system and it’s successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

Ventilators are life-saving tools in the fight against COVID-19. They are durable medical devices intended to control or assist a critically ill patient’s breathing by mechanically delivering them a predetermined percentage of oxygen.

To be critically acclaimed, to get a Grammy, to be on MTV, you gotta talk about current events. You gotta talk about controversy, just stuff people want to hear. At the same time, you gotta get a message across.

The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all.

I’ve been very lucky as an actor. I have worked all the time. Some shows I do, they get cancelled. Some, they’re critically acclaimed, and then they get cancelled. And some, I’m in the last season of this or that. But I can’t complain about my career.

I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.