Criticize Quotes - Page 14

• Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.

  Keith Ellison

  Ideas, People, Facts

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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• We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

  T. S. Eliot

  Work, Book, Breathing

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.84, Broadview Press

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• I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier.

  Keith Ellison

  Trying, Want, Facts

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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• Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.

  Jay Roach

  Party, Opposites, Loyalists

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• [Economy] is flat on the floor, and the paramedics have arrived. And they shouldn't argue about whether they put the resuscitation equipment a quarter of an inch this way or a quarter of an inch this way, or they shouldn't start criticizing the patient, because he didn't have a blood pressure test or something like that. They should do what's needed right now.

  Warren Buffett

  Blood, Tests, Way

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• An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Mind, Foundation

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Writing, Use

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• Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Jobs, Reason, Critics

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• …but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Thinking, Long, Training

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• If those who voice opposition to Pope Francis and the direction in which he is leading the church come from other nations but their statements are published on American media platforms, it may appear that they originate in this country or reflect our sentiments. We have our own dissident voices to be sure, but too frequently every challenging voice that criticizes the Holy Father and is broadcast on American media is identified as American in origin.

  Wilton Daniel Gregory

  Country, Father, Challenges

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• The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Judging, Healthy, Democracy

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• It's politically impossible, as you know, for any member of Congress to make a public statement condemning or criticizing the policies of Israel. It would be political suicidal for them to do so. A lot of the members of Congress agree with me, some very high up in the Congress. But if they came out publically and said it, their seats would be in danger.

  Reza Aslan

  Suicidal, Political, Impossible

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature.

  Femi Kuti

  People, Culture, Slavery

  Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

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• The Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan seems very much in line with his rhetoric during the campaign that he intended to be tough on China. And don't forget, we have seen a lot of presidential candidates, memorably, Bill Clinton, who used to criticize George Herbert Walker Bush for coddling dictators and then take the much softer line with China once he's in office.

  Karen Tumulty

  Office, Presidential, Tough

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Now people are criticizing Europe, the European Commission, Juncker and the whole lot because the distribution of refugees didn't succeed immediately. But you also have to recognize that close to 20,000 refugees have already been redistributed. There are only a few member states that do not want to take part.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  People, Succeed, Refugee

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Republican Party has bent over backwards not even criticizing Democrats in hopes that people wouldn't think they're what the Democrats say they are, while the Democrats go out and behave that way times ten all the time every day and never get called on it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't try to think about how I can satisfy those who would criticize me, or plot and plan to work in ways that will not get criticism. I tend to follow what I really believe. If I believe in something strongly and I act on it, then whatever comes with that territory comes.

  Maxine Waters

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think when you're in the early stages of writing a song, it's important to shut off the part of your brain that tries to edit or criticize. That function comes in handy later, but if you let it in too early, you can trip yourself up.

  Nick Valensi

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you don't have to be factually accurate. You can kind of construct some awesome strawman arguments in your fictional world.

  Owen Pallett

  World, Kind, Argument

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Judging, Parent

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• Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Hate, Jealous, Talking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like people who criticize authors for being self-promotional fail to recognize that a lot of times their ability to continue writing hinges on sales and recognition. Some of it is for fun, some of it is for ego, but a lot of it is just writers trying to ensure longevity to their career.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Fun, Writing, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We are a Russian group and we want to change the situation in Russia. We criticize our own government and it would be strange if we did that from abroad. We don't need performances in the West to put Putin's regime under pressure. The punishments against us have shown us that we succeeded.

  Yekaterina Samutsevich

  Strange, Situation, Under Pressure

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As I worked to explain how to avoid bad strategy, I began to see that one cannot really evaluate or criticize a strategy unless there is a fairly clear statement of the problem the strategy is trying to solve.

  Richard P. Rumelt

  Trying, Problem, Strategy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You make your own luck in life, so I'm not criticizing anyone - and I'm not even talking about myself for that - but I mean, every year, look at the team that wins. You can't control everything in a team sport. So I'm not going to cry about it, but yeah, there are moments where I'm like, "F - k." But I say it almost in an appreciative way, in a way where I realize it's great not everyone can do it. I wasn't fortunate enough to do it, but that's what makes winning a title so special.

  Steve Nash

  Sports, Team, Mean

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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