Quotes of: Critical-thinking Keyword

I don't really think about the critics or the commercial success.

Jurnee Smollett

I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers.

Stefan Sagmeister

When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.

Evgeny Morozov

'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's profound. The message, that we can't accommodate evil, is just as important today.

Jon Voight

I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

Valentino Rossi

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

Don Mattingly

Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a critici...

The Education of the Stoic

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

Charlie Trotter

There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

Al Franken

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

Antony Gormley

To be a critical reader means for me: (1) to affirm the enduring power of the Bible in my culture and in my own life and yet (2) to remain open enough to dare to ask any question and to risk any critical judgement. Nothing less than both of these poi...

Robert M. Fowler

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

Elisabeth Shue

None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences w...

Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observ...

Jon Meacham

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a...

William Zinsser

You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism.

Fear of Fifty

It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.

Red Thread Thinking: Weaving Together Connections for Brilliant Ideas and Profitable Innovations

The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertaining...

Craig Brown

Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it's fluffy comedy or a drama.

Chris Pine

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

Christos Tsiolkas