Criticism Quotes · Page 35

“Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.”

— Stefan Molyneux

Sometimes it is good to hear criticism because you are more attentive.

— Fred

You're always going to face a little bit of criticism from time to time.

— Mike Fisher

Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.

— Howard Schultz

Social media criticism: you only see it how much you want see it.

— Scott McTominay

“Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.”

— Pierre Bayard

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

— Melanie Lynskey

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

— Kurt Schwitters

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known…

— Matthew Arnold

What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?

— Francis Arthur Freeth

We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.

— Steven Pressfield

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a…

— Malcolm Cowley

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because…

— Gregory Mcdonald

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

My defense is a criticism, but we won a national championship at Duke, so it wasn't that bad.

— Jahlil Okafor

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

— Dale Carnegie

I've been criticized more for the things I've done right and/or said in truth than any wrong thing I've said or done.…

— Andrew Cervantes

If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased…

— A. R. Rahman

I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working…

— Sarah Palin

It is one thing being scrutinised for playing a bad shot as a batsman or bowling a bad spell as a bowler,…

— Andrew Flintoff

“Critical voices have to care about history. We have to care about the way in which things get controlled in the past…

— Martin Baker

I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against…

— Thomas De Witt Talmage

Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend…

— Michelle Dean

When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while -…

— Ray Charles

“Remember, we all make our work available in a commercial transaction, the terms of which we, ourselves, dictate. If we give it…

— Pete Morin

Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms…

— Amartya Sen

I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it…

— Terry Teachout

The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the…

— Edward Jenks

Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“One critic complained to me that "Well, if you are right, we will have to rewrite the textbooks!" As if that were…

— John Anthony West

There will be this mix of people like me who write for major national newspapers and amateur critics, practitioner critics, whose primary…

— Terry Teachout

As a songwriter, it's good to have criticism, and I like objective opinions.

— John Gourley

When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

— Jennifer Lee

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Alan Jay Lerner

I'm very sensitive to criticism, particularly when it's very, very personal.

— Noel Edmonds

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

— Elbert Hubbard

“Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

— Dusty Springfield