There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend.… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won't raise your self-esteem, it won't create profound… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I was kind of a volatile personality, very intense. Because of that, I drew some criticism and people would say things about… — Kirk Gibson Copy Share Image
“لله درّ من قال: وليس بناج من مقالة طاعن ولو كنت في غار على جبل وعر ومن ذا الذي ينجو من الناس… — Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen al-Albaani Copy Share Image
When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Realistically, I don't let any of criticisms get to me. I know who I am, I know what I am, I know… — B-Real Copy Share Image
Speaking specifically about the memoir, I know that's a criticism that people can have about my work. When I look at the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker.… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
“Let’s keep a record of the fool things we have done and criticize ourselves. Since we can’t hope to be perfect, let’s… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
President Obama is coming under criticism now for not meeting with his jobs council. He hasn't met with his jobs council in… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to… — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
“There are some who never try, get left behind, forever dying, they just sit it by on the sidelines while they criticize,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The next time someone criticizes you, remember you have two options. You can either sulk and give up, complaining about how unfair… — Prakah Iyer Copy Share Image
I love how people like to underestimate me before they actually know who I really am. No matter what you do to… — Skylerbling Copy Share Image
Always Try To Look At All Things In A Positive Way. All The Criticism, Take As A Motivation To Work Harder To… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Meaningful literary criticism is like penance to please Bhagwan Shiva and ask for wisdom for the world instead of material things for… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I have found myself under a wave of investigation and criticism from the moment I was elected. Since my first days in… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated,… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
[He] seems to want it both ways: the freedom to hold and express beliefs, and immunity from criticism for those beliefs. This… — Jeffrey Shallit Copy Share Image
The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
This situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals'… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“CRITICISM is part of LEARNING and GROWTH. It means that you are taking INITIATIVES to learn something new and grow over from… — Sanjeev Himachali Copy Share Image
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature.… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
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