Criticism Quotes · Page 34

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

— Mark Twain

Sometimes, you can learn more from criticism than you can from flattery.

— Doug McMillon

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

— Doris Lessing

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

— Yanni

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“...chuck-full of error, masturbation and Jesus.”

— Thorndike Edward L

There's no praise for scoring a fight right, just criticism for one you get wrong.

— Callum Smith

How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all.

— Sri Chinmoy

I've accepted loads of criticism and sacrificed so much money to do what I wanted to do - which, in a very…

— Manoj Bajpayee

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

— Dascha Polanco

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

— Anne Stevenson

People are going to talk no matter what you do, so you might as well give them something to talk about.

— Anonymous

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

— Steven Heighton

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

— Glenn Greenwald

She had been critical of his new torch song, "A Side Order of Heartache, Please," suggesting it could be used as a…

— Woody Allen

Criticism, any amount, we welcome it. Come, let's have a discussion - in Parliament, all the better.

— Lee Hsien Loong

I'm very strong in who I am, I'm very happy where I am. And wherever, as you know some people go overboard…

— Tommy Wiseau

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for…

— Abraham Lincoln

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism…

— Ferdinand Mount

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters…

— Fannie Hurst

The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

One of the criticism I had about the Affordable Care Act is it made insurance so expensive that people who had it…

— Dan Donovan

Queen Paola and I will never forget the ties that have grown between the people and us during the course of the…

— King Albert II

“Humor to me, Heaven help me, takes in many things. There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be…

— Dorothy Parker

Fortunately, America remains a robust democracy, where most individuals are not afraid to speak out. What we have done in Iraq has,…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Americans are finally coming to a point where they're accepting of religious criticism, is because George Bush is the first president who…

— Bill Maher

It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long -…

— Deng Xiaoping

To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science.…

— Thomas Kuhn

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Criticism is hard for me but people find hard to believe because they think I'm very tough, very strident, that I tell…

— Ani DiFranco

I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it…

— Herman Melville

Sure, we have an obstacle, ISIS. They can do great damage. They can do great damage and they scare the living hell…

— Joe Biden

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

— Elbert Hubbard

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

— Mark Twain

The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

— Burt Rutan

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.

— Austin O'Malley

“Unless we learn to criticize friends, we shall never find true ones.”

— Tarif Naaz

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

— Walter Savage Landor

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

— Margaret Fuller

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

— V. S. Pritchett