Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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

Best Quotes about Criticism

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

Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Mayor, Federico

You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

Melbourne, Lord

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.

Costello, Elvis

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Mcclung, Nellie

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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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

DiCaprio, Leonardo

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A louse in the locks of literature.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

Adams, Scott

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

Briton, Crand

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. [Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet]

Rossellini, Isabella

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Updike, John

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If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Williams, Bern

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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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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They condemn what they do not understand.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

James, Henry

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Proverb, Chinese

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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Kundera, Milan

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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.

James, Clive

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Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

Native American Proverb

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

Turner, Ted

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