#critical

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#consent #contacts #critical #experiences #help

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

#being #completely #critical #go #head

I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet. ↗

— Bob Iger

#critical #i #sound #taking #too

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues. ↗

— James Iha

#always #bit #come #hypocritical #i

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. ↗

— David Suzuki

#blamed #considerations #critical #economic #failure

My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ↗

— Zara Phillips

#dad #pretty #sometimes

I've said for a long time, clearly the - a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late '80s and which we've worked hard to restore. ↗

— Michael Mullen

#clearly #critical #going #hard #i

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#arrive #critical #cynical #either #heritage

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't. ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#commercially #critically #everything #find #go

Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity. ↗

— Peter Singer

#philosophy #age