Criticism Quotes

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

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

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

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

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

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

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe

We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

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.

They condemn what they do not understand.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.