"When I teach criticism, the first thing I say, and this sometimes pisses off younger - I mean, students, is that, opinions are the least part of criticism. We've all had the experience of going with a friend to a movie or a concert and you leave the theater and one of you loved it and one of you hated it, and that doesn't mean that one of you is an idiot. That's the way things work."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Gary Giddins

#Mean Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.”
“There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through. But everything starts with the thought.”
“Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to relate, how to communicate with others, how to share values with others. ...They teach you how to make a living. You become an optometrist, he becomes a physicist, she becomes a structural engineer, he's an architect. Â In the future, none of that. Everybody is trained to be a generalist, so they understand different cultures, different values, how we get to be the way we are. So no-one can ever use you for war or killing anybody or hurting anybody”
“Teaching is performance art.”

Source : Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.35, Bywater Books
“Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day, for years.”
“This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.”
“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.”

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