Top 36 Quotes About Being A Critic
#1. My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer ... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
Walter Kirn
#2. When I am on E! for the 'Fashion Police,' I only care about being a critic. It loses me many friends.
Joan Rivers
#3. It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
Ed Koch
#4. Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.
David Toop
#5. It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.
Devon Aoki
#6. Being a critic is easy.
But if the critic tries to run the operation, he soon understands that nothing is as easy as his criticisms.
Criticism without a solution is merely an inflation of the critic's ego.
Haemin Sunim
#7. You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
Wendell Berry
#8. [I]n every theology or system, every tradition or discursive practice, a story is being told whose peculiar force should be allowed priority over the abstract categories by which the critic might seek to reduce all narrative to the same bare framework of elementary functions.
David Bentley Hart
#9. Why tell me to be reasonable when you should be telling me to be courageous? [Arlana to Dave in The Battle for Halcyon]
Peter Kazmaier
#10. I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.
Nile Rodgers
#11. I know now that the universe hears everything you ask of it. And oftentimes what you will is what you manifest. But it only takes requests in the order they are received, and it doesn't always give you what you want, though you do get a version of exactly what you ask for.
Mark "Fightshark" Miller
#12. You get hit by one of those right hands or an uppercut or a left hook by Mark Hunt, then you know that **** is on and that cage is locked, and there's nowhere to go.
Bill Goldberg
#13. It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.
Alexander Chee
#14. Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. He smiled, a lazy curve of full lips that reminded her keenly of how those sensual lips had felt moving against hers. He leaned toward her, his voice meant for her ears alone. "Because your family and guests would be quite distressed to discover you had deceived them into believing you were married.
Debra Dier
#16. A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.
Wayne W. Dyer
#17. Nothing - absolutely nothing - in this life gives you more satisfaction than knowing you're on the road to success and achievement. And nothing stands as a bigger challenge than making the most of yourself.
David J
#18. We have a pretty ambitious goal for the world. What we think will make the Web better. What we think will make all these businesses that integrate with us run more effectively. I think if we stay focused on doing that, that's really the main thing that we need to do.
Mark Zuckerberg
#19. When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#20. I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.
Reggie Bush
#21. Any time you start thinking that being tough on yourself will make you better, you give your inner critic a foothold in your life and a welcome mat in your head.
Dani Shugart
#22. The Captain's boat inspections were always pretty slapdash, because they mainly just involved him looking at the ropes and planks and barnacles and then nodding to show that he approved of whatever they happened to be doing.
Gideon Defoe
#23. The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.
Christopher Morley
#24. There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.
Johnny Carson
#25. Stop punishing yourself for things not accomplish yet in life. As long as there is life, there is hope. It is important for you to value who you are by the grace of God. Now, get set to improve that value!
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. Those who are critical don't like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.
Suzy Kassem
#27. What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater
#28. The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.
Joseph Campbell
#29. Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys.
Prince
#30. Criticism is poisonous...to others and to self..Ever heard of the statue of a CRITIC being erected for others to get inspired by ?? ...not in the history of mankind !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#31. My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.
Albert Einstein
#32. I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
Ken Burns
#33. Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable.
Walton Goggins
#34. The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.
Terry Pratchett
#35. (In response to a picture critic.)
I'm actually a very joyful person. But being a genius with a photographic memory mixed with a strong case of OCD makes for a difficult picture sometimes.
Calvin W. Allison
