Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Criticism

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.

Walker, Alice

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Little, Lynn M.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Mcclung, Nellie

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Fox, Dr. Emmit

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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

W. H. Auden

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

Shenstone, William

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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Narosky, Jose

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

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Holtz, Lou

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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

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

Mascotte, John P.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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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

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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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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken

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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 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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Addison, Joseph

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Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Simms, William Gilmore

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

Steinbeck, John

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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dale Carnegie

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

West, Rebecca

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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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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.

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Simms, William Gilmore

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

41.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Selye, Hans

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Blame is safer than praise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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

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

Henry Fielding

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De