Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Criticism

Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.

Shee, Sir Martin Archer

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

Murdoch, Iris

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

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

Shenstone, William

There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

Lewis, Sinclair

A louse in the locks of literature.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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When the critics come around it's always too late.

Nolan, Sir Sidney

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Sinha, Shall

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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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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

Aikman, Leo

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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They condemn what they do not understand.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Clurman, Harold

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

Meir, Golda

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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

Frye, Northrop

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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Proverb, German

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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Selye, Hans

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

Burns, Robert

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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Baudrillard, Jean

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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Harold Rosenberg

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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Benjamin, Walter

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Simms, William Gilmore

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.