Criticism Quotes

I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.

Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting.

Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

I waited a lot of years and I dealt with a lot of criticism about certain things on my face, and once I turned 21, I still felt that I wanted to change that, so I did.

There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

I mean that psychologically. I think [Donald Trump] showed in the debates when he encounters criticism or challenge he behaves the way a bully would. He just doesn't take it well.

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.

Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.

Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.

In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

Neither criticism nor praise should be highly regarded.

Dissonance cannot be corrected by criticism.

I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.

Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.

I can't deal with criticism very well. I've already got it from one angle. I don't need it from anything else.

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.

Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined.

I'm fighting hard - it's difficult under the weight of criticism but you have to take it

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

I don't really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn't really worry me even if it's like out of place. At least it's relevant.

I didn't get rattled by the criticisms. It is like delivering a baby. Some might say it has a flat nose or big eyes. But you cannot do anything about it and must learn to live with it.

You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.

Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

You're always going to face a little bit of criticism from time to time.

Imitation is criticism.

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.