Quotes about criticism
criticism down-and knees
Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees. Marvin J. Ashton
criticism pay compliment
You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism. Mark Twain
criticism form autobiography
All criticism is a form of autobiography Oscar Wilde
criticism film reviews
I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested. Melanie Lynskey
criticism might hours
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns. Michel de Montaigne
criticism scarcity commentary
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. Michel de Montaigne
criticism bears crime
It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that. Mark Twain
criticism way my-way
I like criticism, but it must be my way. Mark Twain
criticism nine defense
Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves. Mark Batterson
criticism world adore
It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores. Publilius Syrus
criticism world salt
I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism. Margaret Thatcher
criticism criticize ifs
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. Mark Twain
criticism wish desert
Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again. Paul Ricoeur
criticism faults facts
As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults. L. Frank Baum
criticism faults facts
It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own. Pablo Picasso
criticism nuggets pearls
I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds. Gerard Manley Hopkins
criticism environment given governor low neither perfect polls president receiving somebody vulnerable
All politicians are vulnerable in an environment of anger. What you've got is this perfect storm: The president is low in the polls, the governor is low in the polls and neither of them is on the ticket. Given the criticism and the anger, somebody is going to be on the receiving end of those emotions.
criticism different receiving
Sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it. They're just not getting what I'm doing, and that's fine. Michael Ian Black
criticism letters doe
I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read. Rainer Maria Rilke
criticism dresses bombs
My only criticism about Quentin Crisp is that the subversive must be ready to subvert themselves. I may dress for myself, but I undress for everybody else, whereas he never did that - he was never prepared to drop a bomb on everything he did. Sebastian Horsley
criticism way serious
Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that. Seth Godin
criticism standing-out
Criticism comes to those who stand out. Seth Godin
criticism faults bears
If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault. Norm MacDonald
criticism common one-thing
Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build. Noel Coward
criticism naked fifteen
I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so. Neil Gaiman
criticism morality seems
Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. John Steinbeck
criticism want way
First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read. Nicholson Baker
criticism world definitions
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. Matthew Arnold
criticism kind admire
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them. Max Beerbohm
criticism fine polish
Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive. Marilyn vos Savant
criticism compliment sincere
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. Plautus
criticism source
I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn. Maurice Strong
criticism littles homework
Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based. Maurice Strong