Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If you live off a man's compliments, you'll die from his criticism. — Cornelius Lindsey Copy Share Image
Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong — Paul Scholes Copy Share Image
In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely… — Amitava Kumar 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
I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do… — Paul Emsley Copy Share Image
We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
“In any walk of life people like praise, but it is important to take criticism as well.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it. — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
Thinking too much of what others think of you ultimately changes what you think of yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's hard not to let criticism make you feel bad about yourself - I do continue to struggle with that as an… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
“To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
My mom is usually the first one I text after every game. She definitely gives me some constructive criticism but also tells… — Austin Reaves Copy Share Image
My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting.… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Parents still have primary responsibility for raising children, but they must have the power to do so in ways consistent with their… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for… — William Blum Copy Share Image
“Funnily enough, “self-criticism” is an idea much in vogue in Marxist countries, but there it is subordinated to ideological considerations and must… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I really support criticism as a craft and as a vocation. People who devote as much time to thinking about sound through… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image