Practicing Criticism Quotes

#1. They signed the unwind order just to spite each other,but laugh,laugh,laugh,Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing,it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop.

Neal Shusterman

#2. If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.

Dan Millman

#3. This gambling habit is the curse of a thief's life.

Jack Black

#4. I was my own woman.
The next step was to find the proper sort of man.

Sylvia Plath

#5. It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.

Alain De Botton

#6. When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting.

Logan Mankins

#7. Grieve for your friend, but never blame yourself.

George R R Martin

#8. When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.

Rachel Zucker

#9. A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#10. Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Nicholas M. Butler

#11. 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

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#12. I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

Hugh Bonneville

#13. But what is the theological cost of viewing ministry as management and pastors as professional organizers, albeit in charge of spiritual organizations? What is lost in the switch is the biblical vision of the pastor as a shepherd of a flock of souls. Such

Iain M. Duguid

#14. The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to endure.

F. Sionil Jose

#15. A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.

Michel Foucault

#16. I wonder if it will be - can be - any more beautiful than this,' murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom 'home' must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.

L.M. Montgomery

#17. I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but I'm 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister.

Paul O'Grady

#18. Find your "self-culture" is hero's work. I liken it to the journey of a warrior who is preparing for battle. There is no violence in the battle, but there is a plan of attack and a methodology that you need to employ to complete the journey. Page 12

Victoria Lorient-Faibish