Critiqued Quotes

#1. Live comedy is fantastic. It's when live comedy is transcribed and reported and critiqued outside of the venue without context that things become complicated.

Michael Che

#2. Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.

Edd Doerr

#3. I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

Kiese Laymon

#4. Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.

Palle Oswald

#5. What's interesting, I think, is that a lot of times, women in powerful positions, when they do get critiqued, when they do get criticized, it often revolves around their appearance, their sexuality, their fertility, et cetera.

Anna Holmes

#6. As a model, part of my job is to be critiqued physically.

Erin O'Connor

#7. I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

Jay Asher

#8. Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.

Victor Davis Hanson

#9. The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing.

Sean Hayes

#10. Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

Douglas Brinkley

#11. I feel like going to class every morning is so humbling. You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.

Misty Copeland

#12. I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a display face never in text, then he squinted, leaned in, and whispered in my ear, "because Helvetica looks like dogshit in text".

Kyle Cooper

#13. It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

Keanu Reeves

#14. Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued each other's stories. Hers is a corker: future Masterchef. I chortled. There's not a single dud in Eat the Sky.

Justine Larbalestier

#15. I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

Susan Stroman

#16. I'm hardly the first to point out that middle-class America has a parenting problem. In hundreds of books and articles this problem has been painstakingly diagnosed, critiqued, and named: overparenting, hyperparenting, helicopter parenting, and, my personal favorite, the kindergarchy.

Pamela Druckerman

#17. The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

Kate Zambreno

#18. You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you're ready to send your novel off to an agent.

Jodi Picoult

#19. If Jenks and she were to be believed, I structured my life to be as horrific as possible to have fun in bed, but having Ivy mad at me might be too much for even me right now.

Kim Harrison

#20. For a few years, I went down a path where I forgot to be in the moment and enjoy the moment.

Liam Hemsworth

#21. Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

Rajneesh

#22. A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

Seneca The Younger

#23. We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that we are who we are; this life really happened; we really have traveled this far in time and space.

Dinah Lenney

#24. As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Donald Fagen

#25. In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

Jonathan Lethem

#26. If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

Harold Wilson

#27. After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.

Dan Castellaneta

#28. It would be a bit awkward to be with a girlfriend who didn't love what you do.

Ashton Irwin