In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism. — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning. — Richard King Copy Share Image
You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego. — Mike Brearley Copy Share Image
Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
People have no right to judge us no matter how good, rich they are as long as they are just a human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Often people that criticize your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you… — Air Hostess Copy Share Image
“We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward… — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
The only advice I can give is to surround yourself with people who are friends and people who believe in you and… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration.… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous,… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
In the eight years I worked at newspapers, even during a little stretch when I was a film critic, I was never,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image