Quotes about criticism

Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence they take corrections.

The criminal is the creative artist the detective only the critic.

The critic has to educate the public the artist has to educate the critic.

The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To be without discrimination is to be unable to praise. The critic who lets you know that he always looks for something to like in works he discusses is not telling you anything about the works or about art he is saying 'see what a nice person I am.

Don’t fear criticism fear stagnation.

Always be ready to help never exercise your right to criticize.

The country was in peril he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

Don't fall flat to deception thousand criticisms can never drift your dream through one millimetre unless you give them the audacity. Be in-charge you are unstoppable!

Don't judge yourself by your past you no longer live there.

time is the best teacher patience is the best lesson

Don’t criticize them they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Feedback is helpful and constructive criticism is hurtful and damaging.

Don't criticise the person who talks to himself maybe he's the best company available.

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.

Bad art is always basically creepy that is its first and most obvious identifying sign

Easy to be a critic hard to be a quarterback.

A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man a man who ignores or refuses or fears criticisms is a foolish man!

Make criticism in good time don't get into the habit of criticizing only after the event.

Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.

Pay no attention to what the critics say there has never been a statue set up in honour of a critic.

I welcome reviews from all readers. I take criticism well but please . . . no comments on my author face!

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined for the realisationof their dreams.

sometimes in your works, give people the opportunity to express their ignorance; then you prove the wrong with your works.

Take the path less traveled and learn from your mistakes. Don’t just let life happen around you; control your future. Learn to ask questions, set small goals, and dream of big ones. Absorb any criticism and let it fuel you. Convince others that you are worthy of your dream, and show them that you are willing to put up a damn good fight for it.

Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you.

A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually lived, not far from the old house of his fathers. Of the rest he took some and built a tower. But his friends coming perceived at once (without troubling to climb the steps) that these stones had formerly belonged to a more ancient building. So they pushed the tower over, with no little labour, and in order to look for hi

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to stay positive, but the ability to be positive, happy, and even, at times, appreciative around 'negative people' is the mark of real positivity.

Forget to criticize, but never forget to enjoy criticism.

Let your actions be the answer to criticism.

Never criticize, complain or condemn. Never forget to appreciate with love what is good in a person.

Criticism always produces negative reactions, but appreciation always creates positive actions.

We would go out and play these songs and people could interpret them however the hell they wanted.

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth — an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

Don’t take to heart, any negative criticism. Focus on positive thoughts

Don’t believe the negative criticisms.

You must resist negative thoughts, negative criticism and negative influences.

To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!

Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is one of the essential constituents of our understanding of reality. From the time we begin to understand language until our death, we are perpetually surrounded by narratives, first of all in our family, then at school, then through our encounters with people and reading. - The Novel as Research. (1968)

A Hillary Clinton presidency would symbolically break the glass ceiling for women in the United States, but it would be unlikely to break through the military-industrial complex that has been keeping our nation in a perpetual state of war--killing people around the world, many of them women and children.

The right to choose to abort a fetus is critical, as is the ability to effect that choice in real life, so it's great that Hillary Clinton wants to repeal the Hyde Amendment. But without welfare, single-payer health care, a minimum wage of at least $15--all policies she staunchly opposes--many people have to forgo babies they'd really love to have. That's not really a choice.It seems ill-conceived to have tethered feminism to such a narrow issue as abortion. Yet it makes sense from an insular Be

I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits s

This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people—because, surely, Wally was nice—would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer—and harder, if not impossible, to conceal.

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

Feminists believe that women should be protected from certain aspects of public life, including speech..... Feminists do not want to engage in aspects of life they disagree with. Instead, they want to silence what they don’t like through censorship and criminalisation. Feminists believe that women need protection from words.Finally, contemporary feminists do not believe that women are independent, free-thinking individuals. Feminists promote a cliquey, sisterhood mentality, but not through a col

Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

What you think of your self is more important than what others think of you.

What God says you are is more important than what others think of you.

Distance gives a clearer view. You can't see the facade of a building while staying inside.

Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation…

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

That’s what artists and athletes do day in and day out. Whether you see them at work or not the process is ongoing. They are working to achieve their heart’s desire to either enlighten or entertain anyone who cares to watch or listen. Some of them achieve glory but others just do it because they love to and they are driven to.When something, anything, interferes with that desire, their sense of self is jeopardized and they have to struggle to hang on to their identity. That’s the real cost invol

People quick to criticize others, but won't shine the light on themselves. You can't always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how precious it is.

Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage.

I think the last thing you should do to someone willing to put your penis in their mouth is give them criticism.

If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.

People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.

Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but these oppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the power they once lacked or (more usually) mad to avoid it.

I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.

Not until we leave bad situations for worst situations, we shall least value and appreciate bad situations which shield us from the worst situation

We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics’ justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person’s lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses.

Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation--who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him--but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope--qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's for

He who don't understand the real essence of critics and oppositions in the journey of life criticizes and opposes himself, knowingly or unknowingly, in his journey of life.

Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.

We knock upon silence for an answering music.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Critique by creating.

When did most of us stop being poets?

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.

Don’t deceive yourself; laughing at someone’s weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like

I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Still the voices of your critics. Listen intently to your own voice, to the person who knows you best. Then answer these questions: Do you think you should move ahead? How will you feel if you quit pursuing this thing you want to do? And what does your best self advise? What you hear may change your life.

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.It all points to the promotion of the idea that there should be a right not to be of

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less.

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.

I know what coming back to America from a war zone is like because I’ve done it so many times. First, there’s a kind of shock at the comfort and affluence that we enjoy, but that is followed by the dismal realization that we live in a society that is basically at war with itself. People speak with incredible contempt about, depending on their views: the rich, the poor, the educated, the foreign born, the President, or the entire US government. It is a level of contempt that is usually reserved f