Criticism Quotes

I have moments of weakness, but mostly I brush the criticism off... Who cares if I'm not a size zero? I don't want to be. I love my body; I'm healthy, I work out.

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

I think the level of criticism you're under is never healthy. I think that's why lots of people in Hollywood end up in rehab. There are the ups and downs. I was never a fan of the attention.

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

I love my voice. But I'd be the first one to make a criticism of it, so I'm not the best person to critique because I'm pretty hard on myself.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

Never let too much criticism or too much praise get in your way.

I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life.

Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.

Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.

I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

Time has nothing to do with the matter.

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.

One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.

The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.

An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

I'm totally open to outside opinions and criticism.

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

I hear the criticism loud & clear That is how I know that the time is near

Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.

If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.