Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Criticism

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Mascotte, John P.

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

Dale Carnegie

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

Burns, Robert

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

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

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

Mcclung, Nellie

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

Flagg, Fannie

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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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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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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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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

Congreve, William

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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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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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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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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

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Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

Jean Sibelius

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

Schlegel, Friedrich

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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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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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When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Rowland, Helen

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He who throws dirt always loses ground.

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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

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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Selye, Hans

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

Carruthers, Charles Edwin

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

Guinon, Albert

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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Proverb, German

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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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

Rostand, Jean

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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.