Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Criticism

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

Little, Lynn M.

When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.

Guinon, Albert

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

Mcclung, Nellie

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

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

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

Briton, Crand

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

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Baudelaire, Charles

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

Bible

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Narosky, Jose

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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Addison, Joseph

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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

Berger, John

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

Burns, Robert

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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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There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.

Fuller, Margaret

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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

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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Proverb, German

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

Pope, Alexander

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

Dale Carnegie

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

Clurman, Harold

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In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Kael, Pauline

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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis

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In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

Carruthers, Charles Edwin

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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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It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

Dahlberg, Edward

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What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.

Symons, Arthur

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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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There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

Adams, Scott

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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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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

Coen, Ethan

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Sontag, Susan

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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.

Paglia, Camille

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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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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Paz, Octavio

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Nolan, Sir Sidney

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

Williams, Bern

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Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.