Motivational Quotes

Criticism

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Criticism

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Cicero, Marcus T.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

Ironside, H. A.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Churchill, Charles

Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Mayor, Federico

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

Adams, Scott

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Klee, Paul

When the critics come around it's always too late.

Nolan, Sir Sidney

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

Murdoch, Iris

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Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

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We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

Miller, Henry

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Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.

Mascotte, John P.

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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

Washington, Denzel

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One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Addison, Joseph

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Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.

Rayburn, Sam

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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.

Symons, Arthur

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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Conrad, Joseph

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There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Ziglar, Zig

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The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.

Little, Lynn M.

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You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

Melbourne, Lord

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If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

Slater, Christian

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Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

Bible

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In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

Carruthers, Charles Edwin

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We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Narosky, Jose

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I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

Cartwright, Bill

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Critics are already made.

Byron, Lord

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Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.

Shee, Sir Martin Archer

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Blame is safer than praise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Steinbeck, John

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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

Aikman, Leo

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The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

Gibbon, Edward

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.

Walker, Alice

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Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

Hutton, R. H.

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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Edwards, Tryon

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.

Sontag, Susan

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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

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They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Porchia, Antonio

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

Burroughs, William S.

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Hugo, Victor

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Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

James, Henry

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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Burns, Robert

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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Hoffman, Dustin

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There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.

Fuller, Margaret

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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Collins, Jackie

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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Chandler, Raymond

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One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

Moliere