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The money can be a
hindrance to someone like
me because the danger is
that you start thinking, 'Is
that a $20 million take?'
That kind of thing, and
being self-critical.
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"It is the mark of an
educated mind to be
able to entertain
a thought
without
accepting it."
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"You want to prepare
your child to think as
he gets older.
You want him to be
critical in his
judgments."
Lawrence Balter, Psychologist
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Richard Bach with this bmk does two things. He
gives me Flight. He makes me For I
am deeply grateful
(Ray Bradbury)
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Critical thinking is skeptical
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being wishy-washy.
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"Read not to contradict
and confute; nor to
believe and take for
granted; nor to find talk
and discourse;
but to weigh
and consider."
Francis Bacon, English essayist
"Of studies," 1625
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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.
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
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Critical Thinking Quotes
• We can't solve problems by using the same kind of
thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
• Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen,
and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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• The human mind once stretched by a new idea
never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Homes
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learning how,
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EDUCATION NOT
THE OF FACTS,
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To THINK.
- ALBERT EINSTEIN
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A suppressing person
Isn't critical. A
suppressing person is a
person who demes the
rights of others.
L Ron Hubbard
American Author
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THE IMAGINATION
IMITATES. IT IS THE
CRITICAL SPIRIT THAT
CREATES.
Oscar Wilde
Irish Writer
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"You want to prepare
your child to think as
he gets older.
You want him to be
critical in his
judgments."
Lawrence Balter, Psychologist
Dr. Baiter's Child sense, 1985
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"l try to encourage people to think for
themselves, to question standard
assumptions... Don't take assumptions for
granted. Begin by taking a skeptical
attitude toward anything that is
conventional wisdom. Make it justify
itself. It usually can't.
Be willing to ask
questions about what is
taken for granted. Try to
think things through for
yourself."
Noam Chomsky
MIT professor, author, and activist
2010 interview with Chris Hedges
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Governments don't want well
informed, well educated people
capable of critical thinking.
That is against their interests.
They want obedient workers,
people who are just smart
enough to run the machines
and do the paperwork.
And just dumb enough to
passively accept it.
George Carlin
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'Read not to contradict
and confute; nor to
believe and take for
granted; nor to find talk
and discourse;
weigh
but to
and consider."
Francis Bacon, English essayist
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In the banking concept of education, knowledge is
a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves
knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to
know nothing.
(Paulo Freire)
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A suppressing person
Isn't critical. A
suppressing person is a
person who demes the
rights of others.
L Ron Hubbard
American Author
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves
everybody blind. The time is always right to do the
right thing.
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
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..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes. Votes: 3

bell hooks
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How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically. Votes: 3

Paul Thomas Anderson
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Women standing up for each other is critically important. Votes: 2

Hillary Clinton
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Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples. Votes: 2

Niklaus Wirth
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Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students. Votes: 2

Christopher Dodd
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Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. Votes: 2

Sylvia Earle
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Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress. Votes: 2

Marc Andreesen
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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. Votes: 2

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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. Votes: 2

Lawrence Kohlberg
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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. Votes: 2

Hu Shih
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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. Votes: 2

Martin Filler
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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. Votes: 2

Tony Judt
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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. Votes: 2

Richard G. Scott
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For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. Votes: 2

Friedrich Durrenmatt
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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. Votes: 2

Alain de Botton
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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. Votes: 2

John Boorman
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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. Votes: 2

Heinz Fischer
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Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there. Votes: 2

Marc Ostrofsky
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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. Votes: 2

E. O. Wilson
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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. Votes: 2

Alec Baldwin
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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. Votes: 2

Ed Markey
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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. Votes: 2

Ashley Judd
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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. Votes: 2

Henry Giroux
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The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation. Votes: 2

Sherry Turkle
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Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before. Votes: 2

Jeremy Grantham
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If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars. Votes: 2

Kiran Desai
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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? Votes: 2

Vint Cerf
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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. Votes: 2

Karin Slaughter
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Flatter yourself critically. Votes: 0

Willis Regier
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Presidents need to be critically studied and analyzed. Votes: 0

Robert Dallek
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Reason can be used only when looking critically back. Votes: 0

Peter D. Mitchell
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Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth! Votes: 0

Clint Smith
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Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically. Votes: 0

Robert Fulghum
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And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with. Votes: 0

Kurt Loder
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes. Votes: 0

Akio Morita
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We are neither worse nor better than those who eye us critically. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho
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It's critically important that people trust you during a public health crisis. Votes: 0

Richard E. Besser
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Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position. Votes: 0

Ben Goldacre
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Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions. Votes: 0

Tim Ferriss
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A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism. Votes: 0

Raymond Kelly
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An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention. Votes: 0

Joshua Reynolds
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So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily. Votes: 0

Peter Agre
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It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe. Votes: 0

Christopher Paolini
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A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. Votes: 0

Banksy
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It seems that Argentina is incapable of looking critically at its tragic military adventure in the Falklands. Votes: 0

Pepe Eliaschev
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To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted. Votes: 0

Maxine Greene
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If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice. Votes: 0

Bryan Stevenson
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Europe clearly is the only place where people can speak up critically, and this is a unique cultural value. Votes: 0

Shirin Ebadi
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Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child. Votes: 0

Steve Maraboli
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My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility. Votes: 0

Chelsea Clinton
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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields Votes: 0

Bjarne Stroustrup
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I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou
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I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally. Votes: 0

Susan Rice
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Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man. Votes: 0

Louis D. Brandeis
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If you claim to 'love' animals but you eat animal products, you need to think critically about how you understand love. Votes: 0

Gary L. Francione
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The headlines are critically important. The majority of the public reads little else when deciding whether or not they are interested. Votes: 0

John Caples
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Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly. Votes: 0

Janet Evanovich
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The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically. Votes: 0

John Taylor Gatto
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism. Votes: 0

Rachel Ward
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Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better. Votes: 0

Georgette Heyer
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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false. Votes: 0

Kabir
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I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that. Votes: 0

Kevin Kline
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I feel so lucky that I've been on shows that have been by and large critically acclaimed and that audiences like it. Votes: 0

Kate Walsh
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A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them. Votes: 0

Martin Compston
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One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art. Votes: 0

Andrew Hoberek
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I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from. Votes: 0

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. Votes: 0

Sylvia Earle
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The difference between helping and selling is just two letters. But those two letters are critically important to the success of business today. Votes: 0

Jay Baer
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Each crisis is different, has its own specificities, and we need to look at it critically; look at each one in its own terms. Votes: 0

Kofi Annan
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Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived. Votes: 0

Sylvia Ann Hewlett
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Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all. Votes: 0

Jonathan Haidt
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Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton. Votes: 0

Gordon Korman
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You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there. Votes: 0

Michael Buble
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Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately. Votes: 0

Michelle Obama
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King Jr.
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...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business. Votes: 0

Alan Greenspan
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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. Votes: 0

Minnie Driver
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I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith. Votes: 0

Ken Ham
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It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically. Votes: 0

Paulo Freire
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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. Votes: 0

Henry Paulson
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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. Votes: 0

Tim Bishop
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As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world. Votes: 0

Christine Caine
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Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me. Votes: 0

Dan Barker
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The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards the Word they condemn themselves. Votes: 0

Reinhard Bonnke
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Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful. Votes: 0

Ted Danson
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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. Votes: 0

Charlie Trotter
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I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that. Votes: 0

Simon Callow
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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. Votes: 0

Lee Ann Womack
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He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. "I really must get a new supplier. This tea is pathetic. America just doesn't understand tea at all. Votes: 0

Rachel Caine
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I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online. Votes: 0

Pete Wentz
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If only I could see myself from the same vantage point that I observe the world; I might judge my behavior and expressions more critically, and others less. Votes: 0

Richelle E. Goodrich
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Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be weighed and assessed critically. Votes: 0

Graham Stanton
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Competition is a great thing and critically important in any industry. I respect the companies that build their brand through innovation/great product, packaging, sharp marketing and clever ideas. Votes: 0

John Robinson
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To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively. Votes: 0

Ellen Lupton
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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. Votes: 0

Chuck Klosterman
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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. Votes: 0

Bernie Sanders
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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. Votes: 0

Sigmar Polke
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I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be. Votes: 0

Sam Altman
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There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important. Votes: 0

Chuck Hagel
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The "third arrow" (of structural reform) is critically important. Japan has some of the best companies in the world, and if you look at their technology, their capability, it's extraordinary. Votes: 0

Jamie Dimon
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Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science. Votes: 0

Ellen Stofan
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Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day. Votes: 0

Tama Janowitz
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A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand. Votes: 0

Adam Braun
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Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it. Votes: 0

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
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Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. Votes: 0

Tim Ferriss
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I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question. Votes: 0

Cornel West
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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people. Votes: 0

John O. Brennan
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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. Votes: 0

Matthew Stewart
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She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates
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What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love. Votes: 0

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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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. Votes: 0

Brian De Palma
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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 Votes: 0

Brian De Palma
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The jobs are there, but, particularly for working adults, traditional education just isnt going to cut it. New ways for training that meet the real-life requirements for adults are critically important. Votes: 0

Jerry Rubin
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Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism. Votes: 0

Karl Popper
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Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.' Votes: 0

Rachel Sklar
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What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process. Votes: 0

Sai Baba
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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. Votes: 0

Dhani Jones
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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. Votes: 0

Donella Meadows
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Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is. Votes: 0

Aaron Belz
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We need a consistent conservative, someone who has stood for free market principles, who has stood for the Constitution and, critically, who stood for the working men and women of this country. Votes: 0

Ted Cruz
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The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique, .. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component. Votes: 0

William McKinley
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The statistic that 67 percent of women's admissions to the psychiatric facilities are during the week before menstruation is critically important to every woman, and to every woman who feels she suffers from depression. Votes: 0

Ayelet Waldman
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there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically. Votes: 0

Francis Chan
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I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how dare he." How dare an insider speak critically about other insiders? Votes: 0

Mark Leibovich
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Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating. Votes: 0

Jennifer Weiner
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...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically. Votes: 0

Francis Chan
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It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity. Votes: 0

Daniel Dennett
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I've had the joy of working on critically acclaimed shows, but unfortunately, those shows aren't always in the Golden Globe or Emmy categories, which bums me out because they are really good, quality shows. Votes: 0

Charisma Carpenter
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The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development. Votes: 0

John Desmond Bernal
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it. Votes: 0

E. L. Doctorow
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ultimately, the long-term goal is to have a critically informed public vote out of office representatives that are sacrificing children to the corporate bottom line with prepackaged teacher-proof curricula, standardized tests, and accountability schemes. Votes: 0

Pepi Leistyna
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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. Votes: 0

Muhtar Kent
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done. Votes: 0

Colin Powell
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The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this New Evangelization project. Votes: 0

Rick Warren
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Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there will always be frogs jumping here in Calaveras County, and in other places, too. Votes: 0

Robert Stack
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What I think is critically important is that there are lots of studies on how prayer effects people that are ill, lots of studies, and I know in my life my prayers have been answered. Votes: 0

John Assaraf
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I look at everything I've done critically - but I think that's the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you're good - in a way, I don't then think you're pushing yourself.

Nicole Kidman
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Repeatedly we question the necessity of our actions and evaluate critically the reasons for carrying them out. But in flow there is no need to reflect, because the action carries us forward as if by magic.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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One of the things I've had to struggle with is that part of what people find critically and curatorially questionable in my work is that I try to make things that don't read as art until they're in a gallery.

Jack Pierson
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You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it.

Neil Postman
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Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.

Michael J Cohen
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We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.

Henry David Thoreau
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History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.

Grace Lee Boggs
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Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.

Aaron McGruder
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Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind.

James Arthur
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I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.

Johnny Depp
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

P. J. O'Rourke
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In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.

Paulo Freire
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The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.

George Augustus Henry Sala
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We need to educate young people to deal with new modes of education that are emerging with the new electronic technologies and we need to educate them to not only learn how to critically read this ubiquitous screen culture but also how to be cultural producers.

Henry Giroux
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He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. "Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

Ilona Andrews
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As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.

John Bolton
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I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.

Stephen Hawking
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

Alain de Botton
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The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Although Christianity has a poor record on animals (as it does, it must be said, on the treatment of slaves, women, children, and gays), it is also the case that Christian theology, when creatively and critically handled, can provide a strong basis for animal rights.

Andrew Linzey
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Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.

Charles Bates
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Just because you can build a machine that is better than a person at something doesn't mean that it is going to have the ability to learn new domains or connect different types of information or context to do superhuman things. This is critically important to appreciate.

Mark Zuckerberg
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Thinking critically is a chore. It does not come naturally or easily. And if the fruits of such efforts are not carefully displayed to young minds, then they will not harvest them. Every school child must be implanted with the wonder of the atom, not the thrall of magic.

Perry DeAngelis
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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Denis Waitley
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Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the line is the subject of a broad, heated debate throughout the country, a debate that becomes louder with each new medical miracle or impossible case ....

Lisa Belkin
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Proper worship in any age is critically predicated upon adequate and accurate knowledge of the God worshiped. No matter how ceremonially elaborate, emotionally rousing, or sermonically eloquent, worship that is not offered from a proper understanding of who God is falls short.

Andreas J. Kostenberger
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A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The surveillance revelations are critically important because they revealed that our rights are being redefined in secret, by secret courts that were never intended to have that role - without the consent of the public, without even the awareness of the majority of our political representatives.

Edward Snowden
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It is critically important that Iran should not develop nuclear weapons. And that the necessary interventions need to be made by the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure that, indeed, that does not happen, in the context of any nuclear generation of power or research or whatever, in Iran.

Thabo Mbeki
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The value of making young people stupid, subject to an educational deficit has enormous currency in a society in which existing relations of power are normalized. Under such conditions, those who hold power accountable are reviewed as treasonous while critically engaged young people are denounced as un-American.

Henry Giroux
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I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be. Votes: 3 Sam Altman


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