Criticism Quotes
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.
The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.
As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.
Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?
Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought
Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.
I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how dare he." How dare an insider speak critically about other insiders?
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.
Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms!
Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.
There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.
The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.
I have never been sorry when I stood for what was right-even against severe criticism.
Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.
The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising.
The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.
Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."
I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.
you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.
If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.
I've always tried to coach people the way I would like to be coached; positively and encouragingly rather than with criticism and fear ... I've tried to be as fair as possible.
Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.
I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.
In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.