Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
The critical factor of a problem is the element that has to be changed before anything else can be changed.
That culture is a a critical resource the organization ignores. Competely mystifying. The organization continues to act as if culture were dark matter, something essentially inaccessible to us. When in fact there is an ancient discipline called anthropology that's pretty good at thinking about it.
The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.
I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.
I don't like to watch myself. For the most part, I find it weird. It depresses me; I'm very critical.
The Law of the Few,. . . says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.
We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.
I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.
Sometimes there are leftwing governments I'm very critical of. For me, being leftwing is to live in a society where there's permanent change. It also means to respect the freedom of everybody, and to not accept big organizations or rich, powerful people holding power.
Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.
People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.
While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.
I still give myself the right to be highly critical of others, though.
I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's not life and death.
Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I think that just because you bare your soul or underwear or private moments it doesn't , or necessarily make for entertainment, or good writing, or funny writing.
The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.
People don't understand that my films is not about being scandalous - it's about being critical of our own society.
Every game is critical.