Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Criticism

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

Burns, Robert

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

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Kundera, Milan

Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Fuller, Margaret

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

Turner, Ted

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Bible

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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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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Steinbeck, John

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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Wilde, Oscar

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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.

Costello, Elvis

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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

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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Paz, Octavio

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

Guinon, Albert

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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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If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

Native American Proverb

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

Eliot, T. S.

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I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

Barkley, Charles

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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

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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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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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The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

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Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dale Carnegie

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All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

Nunn, Gregory

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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Picasso, Pablo

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It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

Whistler, James Mcneill

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There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

Adams, Scott

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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.