Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?""
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Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Creative energy is more critical than learning."
William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"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 Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"For I am nothing if not critical."
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"A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others."
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"Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life."
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"But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last."
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"What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical."
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