Top 100 Quotes About Criticism
#1. While the style of the critique may vary with the character of the critic, overly polite criticism benefits neither the proponents of new ideas nor the scientific enterprise.
Carl Sagan
#2. The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
Denis Waitley
#3. How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.
Dwight L. Moody
#5. Discriminating and broad-minded criticism is what the South needs,--needs it for the sake of own white sons and so daughters, and for the insurance of robust, healthy mental and moral development.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#6. I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
Camille Paglia
#7. I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.
Theodora Goss
#10. I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
Beverley Mitchell
#11. I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
Xavi
#12. To engage with criticism, is on some level, a validation of that which otherwise would go unnoticed.
Jordan Carl Curtis
#13. I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.
David Walliams
#14. In all of history, we have found just one cure for error - a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.
David Brin
#15. Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. To know all is to forgive all.
Dale Carnegie
#16. A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.
Glenn Greenwald
#17. If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.
Edward Klein
#18. We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
Laura Riding
#19. Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.
Ben Lerner
#20. Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test ... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.
Rick Warren
#21. Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.
Adrienne Rich
#22. She shared the curse of many artists - that praise beaded up and rolled off her while criticism stuck like glue, glue embedded with ground glass.
Carol Anshaw
#23. The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.
Rain
#24. You also know you're surrendered when you don't react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don't edge others out, you don't demand your rights, and you aren't self-serving when you're surrendered.
Rick Warren
#25. Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.
Eamon Dunphy
#26. Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.
Carl Sagan
#27. Mr. Hicks appeared to have a deep dislike of all religion. On his Facebook page, nearly all of his posts expressed support for atheism, criticism of Christian conservatives or both.
Anonymous
#28. I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.
Buzz Osborne
#29. I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the President is treated as racism.
Glenn Reynolds
#30. Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
Alfred Binet
#31. I knew I was treading on thin ice. Criticism of anyone's art, no matter how good the intentions, could be risky business.
Emma Scott
#32. Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.
Roger Angell
#33. The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism
Karl Marx
#34. I think the level of criticism you're under is never healthy. I think that's why lots of people in Hollywood end up in rehab. There are the ups and downs. I was never a fan of the attention.
Lauren Conrad
#35. I love my voice. But I'd be the first one to make a criticism of it, so I'm not the best person to critique because I'm pretty hard on myself.
Leigh Bingham Nash
#36. What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.
L.M. Montgomery
#37. The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.
David Edelstein
#38. With success comes unhelpful criticism - ignore it.
Suze Orman
#39. Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.
Immanuel Kant
#40. A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request ... so just make the request.
Diane Sawyer
#41. Don't take criticism personally; take from it what's useful. Apply it and move on to something better.
Catherine Tate
#42. The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance
due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful
and possibly the only
help that can be given.
Elizabeth Bowen
#43. Bei Dao became the most well-known name for me because of certain criticism of my work. Bei Dao was the name under which my work was criticized. So I became more well-known under Bei Dao than under the other names.
Bei Dao
#44. Criticism is just someone else's opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts.
Rodolfo Costa
#45. Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice.
John Dryden
#46. There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.
Alexander Ovechkin
#47. No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.
James E. Talmage
#48. Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
Franz Grillparzer
#49. Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph Addison
#50. Modernism and feminism are two broad axes on which Woolf criticism turns, and there are many other categories that reflect the range of positions available in literary criticism more generally, such as postmodernist, psychoanalytical,
historicist, materialist, postcolonial, and so on.
Jane Goldman
#51. Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.
Eric Alterman
#52. Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.
Henry James
#53. in the month-by-month process of editorial criticism and censorship, Hardy never lost his fierce contempt for all forms of 'tampering with natural truth
Thomas Hardy
#54. Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#55. Woolf criticism has not evolved smoothly, and it would be misleading to say that any one approach or interpretation has ever prevailed to the exclusion of others. There are continuities and discontinuities in trends and arguments,
areas of common ground and major points of dispute.
Jane Goldman
#56. There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
Octavio Paz
#57. They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism.
S.A. Tawks
#58. The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation.
Bell Hooks
#59. It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#60. With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.
Peter Schjeldahl
#61. Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.
Rick Warren
#62. I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.
Winston Churchill
#63. Ignore cynicism, appreciate criticism, and embrace optimism.
Debasish Mridha
#64. If you plan to be an artist you need to learn how to take criticism and stand up for your work. If you don't love it, no one will.
Jen Frederick
#65. I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.
Kenneth Koch
#66. Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
Harold Bloom
#67. I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.
Robert Benchley
#68. All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#69. I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better.
Isabel Allende
#70. As for Israel, our friendship is rooted deeply in a shared history and shared values. Our commitment to Israel's security is unshakeable. And we will stand against attempts to single it out for criticism in international forums.
Barack Obama
#71. In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
Wim Wenders
#72. Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society
W.E.B. Du Bois
#73. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
#75. The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.
Alister E. McGrath
#76. Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.
Marilyn Manson
#77. Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?
Joyce Carol Oates
#79. I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.
Sylvester Stallone
#80. Just know, my darling girl, that if I could, I would call you every day of your life just to say "I love you" with nothing else attached to those words. No criticism. No advice. No requests. Just to say I love you.
Diane Chamberlain
#81. The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.
Clare Boothe Luce
#82. The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
Yasmin Mogahed
#83. Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
Paddy Ashdown
#84. I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.
Paul Scholes
#85. Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.
Nigel Lawson
#86. Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it comes from a master; and in spite of the fact that we have hundreds of critics these days, it is one of the most difficult of professions.
Janet Scudder
#87. I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.
Shia Labeouf
#88. I try to phrase criticism in the nicest possible way, but I also never lie. If people ask, I assume it's because they want to know. People are not dumb about these things; they can tell when a compliment isn't sincere.
Tim Gunn
#89. I don't believe in classes where students criticize each other's manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery, and spite. It's the blind leading the blind, and it can be dangerous. A teacher who tries to impose a way of writing on you can be dangerous, too.
Flannery O'Connor
#91. When people criticize you, it's not always for your actions but for what you represent. If they're really criticizing you for your faith, it's important to maintain your focus and continue on the pathway that God has set before you, even in the midst of criticism.
Tony Dungy
#92. Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.
Donald O. Clifton
#93. The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#94. Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
Said Nursi
#95. The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.
Alexander Herzen
#96. I've always tried to coach people the way I would like to be coached; positively and encouragingly rather than with criticism and fear ... I've tried to be as fair as possible.
Tony Dungy
#97. I've got a lot to prove because of the criticism over my weight and moving back down a division.
Ricky Hatton
#98. Humility means two things. One, a capacity for self-criticism. . . . The second feature is allowing others to shine, affirming others, empowering and enabling others." - CORNEL WEST
John C. Maxwell
#99. When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.
Mason Cooley
#100. write a history, we must know more than mere facts. Human nature, viewed under an introduction of extended experience, is the best help to the criticism of human history.
Homer
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