Quotes of: Critical-time Keyword

One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise.

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

I had a dream. In the dream someone was critical of my newest novel The Snail's Castle. I said, "don't worry about it. If you don't like it, just throw it out the window." I awoke, grinning, with a wonderful feeling of freedom.

The Snail's Castle

Being overly critical of yourself is like having a relentless, inescapable bully who follows you everywhere you go and abuses you.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt.

Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

Finally a woman confesses! Confess what? What women never allowed themselves to confess. What men always criticized on them: they only obey the blood and everything is sex on them, even the spirit.

Story of O

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

Scar Tissue

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.

Practical Ethics

Just for the record the weather today is slightly sarcastic, with a good chance of A. indifference and B. disinterest in what the critics say.

Panic! at the Disco: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

For those of you who really want to give critical thought to your unique leadership style and foster genuine followership, learn from what’s out there and weave it into something meaningful and authentic.

Talent Mindset

Red Carpet Events:Sitting on the couch and watching people who actually chase their goals and dreams; criticizing what they’re wearing… and wondering why we’re depressed.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

When the sum of our faith and humility is sufficient, it reaches a type of spiritual critical mass and hope is fostered and grows. A willing heart emerges which generates the ability for us to submit to the process of recovery.

The Waterfall Concept

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

White Noise: Text and Criticism

The soul knows only to love. While the ego criticizes everything, including the ego itself ...

Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

Walden, or Life in the Woods

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

Zen in the Art of Writing

We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

Joe Lieberman

The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.

Marlene Dumas

For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And b...

Robert Irwin

For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos?

Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between