Criticism famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
-- A. E. Housman -
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
-- Alan Barth -
Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
-- Alan Barth -
You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.
-- Alan Jackson -
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
-- Alan Jay Lerner -
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
-- Albert Camus -
[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
-- Albert Camus -
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
-- Albert Ellis -
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
-- Alex Kapranos -
And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
-- Alexander Pope -
I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
-- Alexander Pope -
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
-- Alexander Pope -
Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
-- Alfred Binet -
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold -
I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity
-- Alison Bechdel -
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
-- Allen Tate -
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
-- Alvin Toffler -
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.
-- Amy Adams -
Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
-- Andre Malraux -
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.
-- Andrew Stanton -
Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!
-- Andy Andrews -
Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!
-- Angelo Dundee -
It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.
-- Anjelica Huston -
Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.
-- Ann Romney -
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.
-- Anne Beatts -
All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.
-- Anne Lamott -
The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
-- Anne Stevenson -
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
-- Anne Stevenson -
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
-- Anne Stevenson -
In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.
-- Anthony Daniels -
I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
-- Aristotle -
To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.
-- Arlene Croce -
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.
-- Arthur Guiterman -
Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.
-- Arthur Symons -
When people (talk trash) about you, you have to keep it moving, keep the records hot and keep your head up.
-- Ashanti -
If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.
-- B. B. Warfield -
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
-- Bainbridge Colby -
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle...
-- Balthus -
The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.
-- Barbara Brennan -
Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined.
-- Barbara Oakley -
Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
-- Barbara Sher -
I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
-- Ben Elton -
Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.
-- Ben Hecht -
Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the sinister application Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter; who will distort and strain The general scope and purpose of an author To his particular and private spleen.
-- Ben Jonson -
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.
-- Bernard Lewis -
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
-- Bill Crawford -
If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.
-- Bill Johnson -
The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.
-- Bill Parcells -
People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less
-- Bill Walsh -
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
-- Bjork -
People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?
-- Bob Dylan -
Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
-- Bob Goff -
I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.
-- Branch Rickey -
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
-- Brendan Behan -
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy
-- Brendan Fraser -
Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.
-- Brené Brown -
If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
-- Brigham Young -
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.
-- Brooks Atkinson -
If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.
-- Bruce Barton -
Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself. In this way criticism must resolve things such that the development of this Substance drives itself forward to the Universality and Certainty of the Idea of its actual existence, the Eternal Self-consciousness.
-- Bruno Bauer -
The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.
-- Burt Rutan -
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.
-- Camille Paglia -
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
-- Camille Paglia -
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
-- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.
-- Carl Sagan -
Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.
-- Carmen Electra -
You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.
-- Carmen Electra -
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
-- Carolyn Wells -
I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.
-- Cecil Beaton -
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
-- Charles Babbage -
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
-- Charles Babbage
