Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity? — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I've been singing since I was a kid, but I take my voice a lot more personally than my acting. I feel… — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
Not wanting to suffer criticism, the judiciary has used its power of contempt to stifle criticism. — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The most common criticism that I've seen is that I write "popcorn fantasy": lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
If you DON'T know me, don't JUDGE me. Nobody said you had to LOVE me. — Tynee Williams Copy Share Image
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.” — Abner Cole Copy Share Image
Obviously, Jews gain certain advantages by promoting the Holocaust idea. It inspires tremendous financial aid for Israel. It makes organized Jewry almost… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
I think I will be just fine without your satires. They mock my progress. — Crosby Kwaw Copy Share Image
We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Judge me not by physical size or appearance, but judge me by the size of my character. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which… — Edward Dahlberg 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
Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
People can twist your words and intentions to mean something completely different, if so, let God be your judge, not them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From what I came from, all the negative criticism - that keeps me from embracing that title of being the best. Because… — Nnamdi Asomugha Copy Share Image
“She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“People offer free advice because they don't use that advice for themselves anyway.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The opinions other people have about you is their problem, not yours. The less you worry about what they think of you,… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
