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The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?"
Peter Drucker
The essential concern is not "How can I succeed?" but "What can I give?"
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That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
Carol Kane
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You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.
Charlie Trotter
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It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.
Roger Bannister
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The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you
Andy Stanley
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Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It’s nothing to be admired.
Bill Maher
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I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
Bill Nye
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How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.
Jeff Olson
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Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.
Kevin Kelly
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Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.
Eric Hoffer
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The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
Ellie Goulding
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The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new
Pauline Kael
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Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.
Richard M. Nixon
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To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.
Carl Jung
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The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.
James C. Collins
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I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.
John Candy
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
Basil Rathbone
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I'm very honored and thankful if someone says something nice about my playing, but in general I'm very critical of what I do.
Billy Sheehan
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I'm real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I'm completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.
Hulk Hogan
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I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.
Donald Fagen
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Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.
Craig A. Evans
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Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.
William James
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The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.
Sharlto Copley
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You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.
Tony Kushner
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Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet
Richard Leakey
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Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
Ernest Mandel
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I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.
Sunil Gangopadhyaya
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I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.
Catherine Deneuve
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I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.
Edward Whitacre, Jr.
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I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.
Jane Harman
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My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
Patricia Cornwell
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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
Stanley Kubrick
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Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world.
Karen Marie Moning
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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
Donald Rumsfeld
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I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
Fiona Apple
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If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion.
Carver Mead
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I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
Rowan Atkinson
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The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.
Peter Jackson
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A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
L. Ron Hubbard
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. Those seconds are critical.
Eric Thomas
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[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.
Edward Snowden
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I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.
Vin Diesel
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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
John Donne
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It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.
Gretchen Rubin