“You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own… — Ramin Bahrani Copy Share Image
I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention,… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn't be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you're… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
It's a great privilege to be asked to help the country - even if it occasionally comes with some degree of criticism. — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, And don't criticize what you can't understand — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look… — Louis Bourdaloue Copy Share Image
A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
For every criticism of the U.S. economy, whenever people go into a panic, they look around and say, 'That's the cleanest shirt… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Do not let other people's opinions shape who you are. Remember what makes YOU happy, and remember who YOU really are. Don't… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I love having the ball in the last second. I can take the criticism of missing that shot or the success of… — Dillon Brooks Copy Share Image
U.S. politicians must be able to criticize a nation state without every criticism - even the heavy-handed ones made for one-minute ad… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
“sometimes in your works, give people the opportunity to express their ignorance; then you prove the wrong with your works.” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Nothing happens for nothing. Strong unfair criticism can be very healthy for us, keeping us in check, developing us, and our effectiveness. — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
I think people misjudge the use of the term constructive criticism to project their own negative opinions about something subjective. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When put to the best use, poetry has not only the power to stir one’s emotions and thoughts, but also the soul… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of… — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
When everyone tells you that you're arrogant, don't be so quick in condemning yourself. Try and understand who's wrong between you both.… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
“You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Never let ANYONE tell you how you're supposed to look or how you're supposed to live your life. It's YOUR LIFE so… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
