Critical Quotes - Page 14

• The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

  Edward Albee

  Play, Finals, Evaluation

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.

  Edward Albee

  Voice, Views, Might

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite it if I wanted to. Up until that point, I'm so involved with the experience of having written the play, and the nature of it, that I can't see what faults it might have. The only moment of clear objectivity that I can find is at the moment of critical heat - of self-critical heat when I'm actually writing.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Self, Objectivity

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Self, Creative

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted to do in the way of withholding judgment until all the facts are in, and then judging impartially on the merits of the case as well as he can. ... Why not a course in Sherlock Holmes? The detectives, or at least the detective-story writers, join with the scientists in excoriating "dogmatic prejudice, lying, falsification of facts, and data, and willful fallacious reasoning."

  Anthony Standen

  Attitude, Lying, Science

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• How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.

  Oliver $

  Style, Trying, Degrees

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• I want to remain that family farmer independence, which I think is so critical to this country. I think it's helped build this country.

  Jon Tester

  Country, Thinking, Independence

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• One of the most important analytic tools when assessing an investment is an intellectually advantaged disparate view. This includes knowing more and perceiving the situation better than others do. It is also critical to have a keen understanding of what the market expectations for any investment truly are. Thus, the process by which a disparate perception, when correct, becomes consensus should lead to meaningful profit. Understanding market expectation is at least as important as, and often different from fundamental knowledge.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Meaningful, Views, Knowing

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• The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

  Leon Trotsky

  Thinking, Hymns, Singing

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• I am critical of the fact that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pulling out of everything - the joint approach to the refugee issue, for example. He cannot disparage his colleagues in the EU either - that's not how we treat each other. We require solidarity: in refugee policies, just as in the financial architecture of the structural funds from which countries like Hungary have strongly profited from for years.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Years, Issues

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When a man ends up in the White House who boasts about not having a clue and who says that specialist knowledge is elite nonsense, then a critical point has been reached. Then you will have an obviously irresponsible man sitting in a position that requires the utmost degree of responsibility.

  Martin Schulz

  Responsibility, Men, White

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• On a personal side, I found Bo Burlingham's Small Giants to be a great window into how business can be an extension of social change and the critical role the entrepreneur plays in creating progress in society.

  Lewis Schiff

  Play, Creating, Entrepreneur

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.

  Lewis Schiff

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Of course, it is worth it to take the time to think carefully through your assumptions, and ensure you at least have hypotheses around how you will create value. But use the analysis as a way to focus attention on the most critical assumptions, rather than spend a ton of time massaging the numbers.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Thinking, Numbers, Focus

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Crush, Mistake, Team

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Part of my reaction to my diagnosis of infertility was deeply sarcastic and critical, part of it was morbid, part of it was numb, part of it was neurotic and desperate. To mush all of those notes together would cancel them out. I ended up just trying to keep them as separate as possible.

  Monica Youn

  Sarcastic, Together, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the church or seen as less important than being a senior minister in a large, prosperous congregation; but I don't believe that for a minute. I think this is absolutely critical work in the life of the church; and I think my path in life would have been much different if it hadn't been for my youth minister, Burt Randle, and a series of campus ministers in both college and graduate school.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Senior, Believe, School

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• Good for Matt Lauer. I don't know why everyone is so critical because they thought that he was just gonna attack and bash [Donald] Trump and give Hillary [Clinton] a pass.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Giving, Clinton, Trump

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.

  Susan Fiske

  Goal, Respectful, Discourse

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a rather new adventure. Let's wait and see what will happen!

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Religious, Adventure, Waiting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In an election like this one [in 2016], not only are voters dissatisfied, but where the foundations of our economy, our democracy, our ecosystem, and international war and peace are really crumbling and are really at grave risk for failing in many ways, we need desperately to have an honest public conversation about both the track record of where we've been, what are the critical problems we are facing and what it will take to solve them.

  Jill Stein

  War, Ecosystems, Track

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Law, Play

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

  John Cleese

  Stupid, Mean, Humour

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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• I'm very picky and I'm very critical.

  Meital Dohan

  Picky

  Interview with Anthony Statler, www.bullz-eye.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I mean everyone is going to have an opinion. But the fact is, is many people have been critical or judgmental, which is almost a double whammy, as if the pain of going through a divorce is not enough, then to have what you want - embrace and support.

  Paula White

  Pain, Mean, Divorce

  Source: culteducation.com

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