The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Don't listen or think about anything other people say about you. Just live your life and prove them wrong. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Judging others is like looking in a mirror, reflecting the disappointments and frustrations you have in your own life, restraining you from… — Frederick A Babb Copy Share Image
I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
One must take things lightly, after all, we are entertainers and acting isn't rocket science. The trick is, not to take criticism… — Neha Dhupia Copy Share Image
Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to… — Thomas Sadoski Copy Share Image
National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
There's always gonna be criticisms, no matter what movie you do, no matter what. You can't please everybody, and it doesn't matter… — Sam Worthington Copy Share Image
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John's first American album, 'Elton John,' was that the production was too grandiose.… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me.… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
As long as you love yourself it doesn't matter what others think. It's not their lives, it's yours, how you see yourself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you cant be criticized for it, its probably not remarkable. Are you devoting yourself to something devoid of criticism? — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
In our village women are left to clean the house and milk the cattle so when I first entered the ring, I… — Geeta Phogat Copy Share Image
“Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave that to people who haven't been at… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“She shared the curse of many artists—that praise beaded up and rolled off her while criticism stuck like glue, glue embedded with… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
While growing up I faced criticism not on the basis of gender but on my appearance. I was bullied and body-shamed. — Harnaaz Sandhu Copy Share Image
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism. — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
Criticism is natural; it's just that you have to deal with it positively and use it to improve. — Inzamam-ul-Haq Copy Share Image
Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Do you really believe in what you said or wrote – in the thing that’s bringing criticism? And if I do believe… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise — Shiv Khera Copy Share Image
With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better. — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I have come to this conclusion: if 'sentimentality' is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
The criticism of the Democrats in the past is that they were too timid. They ran on consultant-driven platitudes and didn't offer… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
“If critical analysis of repression is itself inseparable from repression, then surely to think with any efficacy has to be think in… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
