Motivational Quotes

Criticism

In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Criticism

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

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

Flagg, Fannie

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

Dahlberg, Edward

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

Coen, Ethan

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

Man, Paul De

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

Mascotte, John P.

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

James, Clive

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Dale Carnegie

13.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Narosky, Jose

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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Fielding, Henry

19.

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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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.

21.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Rostand, Jean

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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

W. H. Auden

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

Turner, Ted

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

Pollock, Channing

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Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis

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There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

Adams, Scott

28.

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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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Selye, Hans

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Critics are already made.

Byron, Lord

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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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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Johnson, Samuel

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Simms, William Gilmore

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They condemn what they do not understand.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Kundera, Milan

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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

Keats, John

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

Paz, Octavio

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