Top 100 Quotes About Criticizing
#1. When liberals equate criticizing Islamic doctrine with anti-Muslim bigotry, it leaves a vacuum that is too frequently filled by genuine right-wing anti-Muslim bigots who are even more disagreeable. Who gets stuck in the middle? Ex-Muslims.
Ali A. Rizvi
#2. We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds, ... for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
T. S. Eliot
#3. Red Carpet Events:Sitting on the couch and watching people who actually chase their goals and dreams; criticizing what they're wearing ... and wondering why we're depressed.
Steve Maraboli
#4. If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.
Bill Cosby
#6. For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.
Neal Stephenson
#7. I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.
Barack Obama
#8. Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.
Kevin Drum
#9. Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.
Rex Stout
#10. [President Bush] recently challenged Iraqi soldiers still fighting U.S. troops like so: ... 'My answer is bring 'em on.' For those of you who may be criticizing Bush for acting like a movie cowboy, let me remind you. He's actually acting more like a movie cheerleader.
Jon Stewart
#11. It's funny: I spend time in the book criticizing social media, but I'm also aware that a lot of my success is because of social media. I can broadcast myself and my work to thousands of people that are following me or my friends. I do think that social media can be good for self-promotion.
Kim Stolz
#12. I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.
Lee Daniels
#13. I'm always criticizing and only see the mistakes.
David Chang
#14. Darwinism is under official protection throughout the world. No other ideology in history, no other idea, has ever been kept under such strict official protection. To make any kind of statement criticizing Darwinism causes an official reaction.
Harun Yahya
#15. I can give you high blood pressure just on the phone by criticizing you. On the other hand, I can send a tweet to somebody in China and give them a dopamine hit.
Deepak Chopra
#16. I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
Albert Ellis
#17. This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive.
Jennifer Lawrence
#18. If you are continually judging and criticizing yourself while trying to be kind to others, you are drawing artificial boundaries and distinctions that only lead to feelings of separation and isolation.
Kristin Neff
#19. Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
Laurence J. Peter
#22. Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself ...
Harold Medina
#23. This bad habit of fault-finding, criticizing and complaining is a tool that grows keener by constant use, and there is grave danger that he who at first is only a moderate kicker may develop into a chronic knocker, and the knife he has sharpened will sever his head. Hooker
Elbert Hubbard
#24. If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
Tao Lin
#25. If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.
Wahb Ibn Munabbih
#26. From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
Halldor Laxness
#27. Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.
Ingmar Bergman
#29. I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?
Jose Padilha
#30. I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.
John Thune
#31. I think that's an incredibly overwhelming reality that is really at the basis of how we're going to deal with this. Looking at the film, people will say, "Oh yeah, you're criticizing the police." I say, "No."
Oren Moverman
#32. A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!!
Jim Ferree
#33. As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.
Morihei Ueshiba
#34. I am criticizing a culture that has sold the big lie that 'Mom doesn't matter.'
Mike Pence
#35. Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.
Isha Judd
#36. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one ... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#37. Description but Holden narrates in a cynical and jaded he offeres thoughtfuland even criticizing him for childishness bothered last row voice in-depth
Anonymous
#38. Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.
Derek Parfit
#39. I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.
Ben Roethlisberger
#40. Look at the home makeover shows. It isn't realistic to tear down a house, rebuild it, and decorate it in less then a week, but there aren't people out there criticizing those shows.
Kim Lyons
#41. We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings.
Debasish Mridha
#42. I just reminded myself that she didn't say it mean. She wasn't making fun of me. She wasn't comparing. Or criticizing.
Stephen Chbosky
#43. There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new.
Mathias Dopfner
#44. We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges awareness of the technology with a more traditional, progressive, left-wing critique of the market.
Astra Taylor
#45. In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#46. Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.
Luqman
#47. Less gossiping, more encouraging.
Less complaining, more thanksgiving.
Less criticizing, more complimenting.
Less hurting, more helping.
Less hating, more caring.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#48. Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.
Greg Graffin
#49. We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members of every human grouping would criticize their own past, even before criticizing others.
Israel Shahak
#50. Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.
Thomas L. Friedman
#51. I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting - anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote.
Darryl Pinckney
#52. Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.
Michael Jackson
#53. The miraculous power of love to create a context in which people naturally blossom into their highest potential. Neither nagging, trying to get people to change, criticizing or fixing can do that.
Marianne Williamson
#54. Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?
Ernie J Zelinski
#55. Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.
Wayne Dyer
#56. In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.
Bankei Yotaku
#57. Last night, we had the first gubernatorial debate. Some people are criticizing Schwarzenegger for not going. They say Arnold goes around telling people he cares, everything is going to be great, forget about everything he did in the '70s. Hey, it worked for George Bush.
Jay Leno
#58. Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#60. As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.
Jill Sobule
#61. I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#62. Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account
Sunday Adelaja
#63. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
Dale Carnegie
#64. Be worried when the haters stop hating and the critics stop criticizing.
Behdad Sami
#65. When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#66. You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.
Vaclav Havel
#67. I plead with you to have the courage to refrain from judging and criticizing those around you, as well as the courage to make certain that everyone is included and feels loved and valued.
Thomas S. Monson
#68. Will Rogers ... used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a
yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I come out with
a newspaper and pretend I'm an intellectual making fun of the yokels
running the government.
Mort Sahl
#69. When we say nasty things about other people, we're really criticizing something in them that we don't like in ourselves.
Craig Lancaster
#70. Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.
Gemma Halliday
#71. The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.
Sloane Crosley
#72. I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.
Troy Polamalu
#73. You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.
John French Sloan
#74. Make criticism in good time; don't get into the habit of criticizing only after the event.
Mao Tse-tung
#75. The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Jean De La Bruyere
#76. It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.
Arnold Palmer
#77. The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.
Maxwell Maltz
#78. A wife who obsesses on "fixing" her husband only succeeds in demeaning him.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#79. The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.
Henri Nouwen
#80. I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.
Fiona Gubelmann
#81. Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don't care either way to join the 33% who love you
Robert Kiyosaki
#82. Fair-minded people 'get in the game' rather than criticizing from the sidelines.
Frank Sonnenberg
#83. Brown, they would later write, had taught them that the goal of reading and criticizing was "to know and understand, not to like or dislike, and the aim of writing was to get down what you wanted to say, not to gesticulate or impress.
Ruth Franklin
#84. Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Wayne Dyer
#85. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Louise L. Hay
#86. When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.
Amy Dickinson
#87. Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.
Robert Dallek
#88. Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.
P. Chidambaram
#89. Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence.
Eminem
#90. I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows ... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
Tamera Mowry
#91. He breathes life into me. He has allowed me to understand who I am, and not feel broken for being me. I can be myself with Erik and not worry about him criticizing me. He owns me. And he always will.
Scott Hildreth
#92. When I am critical of others, I am actually exposing my own sin. If Christ lives in me, continually extending His mercy toward me, I will reflect His compassion by caring about the needs of others rather than by criticizing them. The
June Hunt
#93. When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.
Jesse Owens
#94. Once again no one in the U.S. government had made any public statement either supporting the trial or criticizing the Hitler regime. The question remained: what was everyone afraid of?
Erik Larson
#95. I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up words of encouragement and support, they shut down and discredit you.
Tim Gunn
#96. I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
Jack Osbourne
#97. criticizing an ideology, including a religious ideology, however vociferously, is different from inducing hatred of a people or persons.
Charb
#98. People who are criticizing ... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#99. Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself.
Iyanla Vanzant
#100. Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
William Temple
