Criticism Quotes

I'm not saying I'm impervious to criticism.

It's useful for activists just to be out there to keep you mindful and not get complacent, even if ultimately you think some of their criticism is misguided.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it.

Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.

Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

Valid criticism does you a favor.

For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.

When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is.

The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.

Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

During the primaries, if another candidate criticized him, [Donald] Trump would respond with even stronger criticism toward his attacker.

I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.

[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.

Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.

I play in New York, man. Criticism is part of the game. You take criticism as a challenge.

DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.

I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.

Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a child lives with shame, he learn to fell ashamed.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

We don't criticize. Criticism is an enemy. You've got to make loving, positive suggestions.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.