#critical

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego. ↗

— Alec Guinness

#appearance #bearing #critical #diction #ego

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#atmosphere #big #commander #contaminated #critical

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them? ↗

— Zac Hanson

#always #because #cares #cool #critical

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success. ↗

— Tom Harkin

#cell research #critical #easing #enormous #federal

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. ↗

— Paul Harris

#average #being #critical #disposition #else

People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent. ↗

— Frank Lautenberg

#critical #decreased #drive #driving #functions

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements. ↗

— Paul de Man

#certain #critical #denies #even #literary

I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention. ↗

— Edward Whitacre, Jr.

#am #critical #gm #honored #i

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content. ↗

— Alan Sokal

#critical-thinking #science #skepticism #science

When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad-people #chances #discernment #evil #good