Quotes of: Critical-thinking Keyword

An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.

How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

Ai Weiwei

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.

Juliette Lewis

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

Alvin Toffler

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their fr...

Charles Stanley

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not...

L. Lionel Kendrick

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Louis Sullivan

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

Annabelle Selldorf

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

Anne Stevenson

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

Jerry Saltz

By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.

Michael Eric Dyson

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

Tom Stoppard

Americans are interesting creatures. They criticize those who speak their language with a slight accent but have no issues with butchering most other languages, my name included.

Afterimage

I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.

I Want

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.

Jane Austen And Her Art

We all have a past that may be worthy of some criticism". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

It takes an aeon to shift position, get comfortable, let alone create a wave in this fishbowl full of glue. - from the poem 'Critical Mass

Rawshock

The most dangerous negativity comes from ourselves in the form of doubts, fears and unreasonable self-criticisms.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

I have a dream, there will be critical point in the future, where economics and technology will negate each other.

Master of Stupidity

‪#‎PRAISE‬ ‪#‎CRITICISM‬ ‪#‎NEUTRAL‬ If you live off people's compliments..you will soon die of their criticism..

Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core