Motivational Quotes

Criticism

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Criticism

Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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

Bible

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

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

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

Moliere

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

Ironside, H. A.

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

Dale Carnegie

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Turner, Ted

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

Paz, Octavio

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Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.

Briton, Crand

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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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Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

Hutton, R. H.

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Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.

Clurman, Harold

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Johnson, Samuel

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

France, Anatole

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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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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Selye, Hans

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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Critics are already made.

Byron, Lord

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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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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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

Steinbeck, John

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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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A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Wilde, Oscar

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We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Narosky, Jose

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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Carruthers, Charles Edwin

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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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They condemn what they do not understand.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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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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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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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Woolf, Virginia