Criticism Quotes
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit and to act on it without understanding it.
I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.
"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.
The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions and doctrines as a challenge to combat.
You have to remain cool under fire and let criticism roll off you. Good leaders handle conflict easily and bad ones are eaten up by it.
The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.
People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame
If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.
Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.
He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.
Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.
People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting.
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.
What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.