Criticism Quotes

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.

One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized

A novel is a tricky thing to map.

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

Always bring money along with your complaints.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

I love constructive criticism.

I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I'm acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don't always agree with it, but I really need it.

Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

Constructive criticism is legitimate, but when it escalates to vitriol, it affects us all, because celebrities and influencers are part of the collective consciousness.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?"

I don't expect people to feel sorry for me. My teammates get more upset about the criticism and booing than I do.

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.

You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.

Every time I get criticism from people, I learn from it and what to do the next time so there are fewer misconceptions. I'm continuing to be socialized as a woman, but also as a filmmaker.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves... He must have the passion of a lover.

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.