Scientific education is by far the best training for all walks of life because it teaches us how to assess situations critically and react accordingly. It gives us an understanding based on reverence for life-enhancing technologies as well as for life itself.
When you’re writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn’t. Be wise and don’t let good things crowd out those that are essential.
For millennials, conducting business with a purpose that goes beyond making profits is critically important in determining the kind of company they want to work for – and the kind of company with whom they are willing to do business.
In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about ourselves.
The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they’re also very opaque.
We need all people, everyone, to think for themselves, to think critically, to think abstractly, to develop their powers of empathy.
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition – the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.
Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.
We wouldn’t have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons.
Women standing up for each other is critically important.
Foxes was a movie that didn’t do a lot of business but it didn’t do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.
Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
Reducing our dependence on foreign energy – that is critically important to America’s economic future. Excellence in education – if we’re not the best educated, we’re not going to be the most powerful for very long.
I think, you think critically all day, you’ve got a lot of decisions to make, so you’ve got to make sure that you take a couple of seconds every day to relax your brain a little bit.
Both ‘Oz’ and ‘Homicide,’ they’re critically admired, so it’s not like they’re really neglected, but I wish they’d found bigger audiences.
What I actually do put much more weight on, in all honesty, is not being critically acclaimed – it’s being respected by my OGs. When I talk to E-40 on the phone, every time I talk to him, I’m like, you know, if he tells me I’m doing good, I’m doing good.
When I was offered ‘Hawkeye,’ it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you’re just going to get a watered-down version of what they did.
That is what is happening in America. People see things, but still they’ve just completely lost the ability to think critically.
Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.
When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it’s found an audience and is critically well received, that’s a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don’t want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone’s DVD collection.
It’s hard to get to the right position, to be somebody who is commercially successful and critically acclaimed. That’s the sweet spot.
I’m a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It’s true: I have a master’s degree in creative writing, I’ve published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.
Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn’t get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won’t.
It’s critical for girls to see role models like myself that are in technical fields. Looking for ways to come in as speakers or do a career day, or just find a way to connect with students or invite students to their workplaces to shadow them for the day… is critically important.
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.
There’s a really high emphasis on having good taste in my household and having nuanced opinions. We’re always critically analyzing stuff.
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