A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism.… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Children learn what they live. If a child lives with criticism... he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility... he learns… — Dorothy Nolte Copy Share Image
What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Part and parcel of being an international sportsman is dealing with fair or unfair criticism and also when you are on the… — Stuart Broad Copy Share Image
There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It's risky to allow radiation to constantly go up into the atmosphere. The main criticism of this approach of entombing it is… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The most time wasted in life, is the one spent worrying about other peoples opinion of you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner -… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
My one criticism of Vertigo Crime to date is that it's been a boys' club, reveling in violence that, while entertainingly lurid,… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal. — Mack Brown Copy Share Image
I'm carrying all this luggage on my mind just wondering when I'll be done with these expectations but only lord knows when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see… — Yekaterina Samutsevich 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
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
