Criticism Quotes

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.

It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

If criticism could kill you, I'd be dead.

If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.

Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.

In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.

They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press

I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why I never take the criticism too deep under my skin.

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone...If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.

Patience is a strength, not a weakness; and if by practicing patience we stop retaliating to harm and criticism, people will gradually come to understand that our real nature is very special

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.