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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
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

2.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

3.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

4.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

5.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Wilder, Thornton

7.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

8.
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.

9.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

10.
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
Paglia, Camille

11.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

12.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset

14.
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

15.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

16.
You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Holtz, Lou

17.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt

18.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.
David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. [Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet]
Rossellini, Isabella

20.
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
Fiedler, Leslie

21.
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Carnegie, Dale

22.
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.
Smullyan, Raymond

23.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

25.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

26.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie

27.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

28.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

29.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Franklin, Benjamin

30.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
Algren, Nelson

31.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

32.
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

33.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

34.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

35.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

36.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar

37.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton

38.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

39.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

41.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

42.
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Simms, William Gilmore

43.
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

44.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Meir, Golda

45.
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
Dahlberg, Edward

46.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

47.
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

48.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

50.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Thoreau, Henry David


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