Criticism Quotes
Had she any respect for him at all, his words would've affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a brute.
The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.
It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strengths of our brothers and sisters.
Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism— a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew.
Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.
If you aren't polite when giving criticism you will come off as an awful person and if you aren't polite when receiving criticism you will come off as an awful person.
Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.
For every one person who praises you, there are a hundred who would criticize. Heed neither the one nor the hundred. It is your own opinion that truly matters.
Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments.
Rather than critique people, try admiring God’s creative handiwork.
The greater self-confidence an individual possesses, the less inclined he is to put down others. This says a lot about those who constantly belittle.
How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.
Society in its boundless ignorance ridicules the caterpillar but praises the butterfly.
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
It is important to be Intuitive at this time and allow the natural course to show you the way to the next step.
It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.
To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.
Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!
You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.
When they judge you, yawn.When they misunderstand you, smile.When they underestimate you, laugh.When they condemn you, ignore.When they envy you, rejoice.When they oppose you, prevail.
The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.
I feel like oversized trousers on sale, not even made of good material, that no one wants to buy. They just hang in there hoping that someone someday will compromise for its low cost.
What we see in a democracy governed by “representatives” is not a government “for the people” but an organized conflict of interests that only results in the setting up of unstable balances of power.
For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.
Everything around me affirmed there was nothing else I could do – yet everything inside me cried that I was not doing enough.
The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.
Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born.
EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.
Being overly critical of yourself is like having a relentless, inescapable bully who follows you everywhere you go and abuses you.
The great philosopher, Aristotle had this to say in regards to criticism. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?
Self-criticism and negative thoughts about yourself will attract people who reflect this back to you, showing critical behavior and can abuse you physically.
The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.
The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.
The most dangerous negativity comes from ourselves in the form of doubts, fears and unreasonable self-criticisms.
Don't criticize me because of what I write, because for all you know, I could be right!
Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful. A little later, after a few days or months, how much is really left of it?
When the demons of criticism have fled the thoughts, the Angels of beauty preside - oh cheerful sweet world exorcised!
Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.
Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.
There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault.