Motivational Quotes

Criticism

Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

- Pollock, Channing

Best Quotes about Criticism

No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

Berger, John

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Selye, Hans

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

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Little, Lynn M.

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Narosky, Jose

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

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No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Buxton, Charles

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.

Lehman, David

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Mayor, Federico

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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Holtz, Lou

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Jones, Franklin P.

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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Smith, Sydney

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Raphael, Frederic

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Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

Mcclung, Nellie

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A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.

Shenstone, William

29.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

France, Anatole

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

Bible

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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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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

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A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.

Byron, Lord

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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

Richard Pryor

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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

Sontag, Susan

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

Churchill, Charles

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When subjected to the rain of criticism, let?s not curse the rain. Let?s accept it as a part of life. Let?s remember that the more criticism we can successfully handle, the more zest we will experience in our lives.

Sinha, Shall

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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Epictetus

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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

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The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Fiedler, Leslie

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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Proverb, German

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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Sontag, Susan