I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Criticism and all the hate can be fuel. Use it! But for the most part, the drive must come from within. Find… — TJay Taylor Copy Share Image
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, And don't criticize what you can't understand — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's no right or wrong when one chooses to be happy. It's just a battle between one's own happiness and the judgment… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
There is a healthy amount of self-doubt and criticism with most people that make music. You find your areas that are your… — Anderson East Copy Share Image
You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism. — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you… — Jonathan Gold Copy Share Image
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation… — Mohammed Arkoun Copy Share Image
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
“He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The fact that I had spent so many years doing media criticism and thinking really seriously about theme and structure did definitely… — Lindsay Ellis Copy Share Image
Doing, saying, or being anything puts you at risk for criticism; the only way to avoid criticism would be to do absolutely… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Listenin to nothin, takin no suggestions, All destructive criticisms that can't improve on perfection. — Daniel Dumile Copy Share Image
I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
