Criticism Quotes · Page 97

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to…

— Thomas Sadoski

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove…

— Eric Alterman

Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost…

— Bernard Lewis

I know exactly what that movie's [Brokeback mountain] about. I can't define it; it doesn't tie up in a perfect bow. But…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

— John Wooden

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

— John Osborne

There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

— Moby

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort…

— Anonymous

Perhaps the most pernicious strain of contemporary criticism says one thing before it says anything else, says it to whatever historical event…

— Greil Marcus

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the…

— Karen Armstrong

The lawyers have escaped most criticism [and undeservedly so]. The tax shelters [were approved by lawyers, who got paid huge commissions to…

— Charlie Munger

Know yourself before you decide to go around analyzing and judging other people.

— Isaiah Harden

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has…

— Salman Rushdie

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

— Harold MacMillan

I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do…

— Alan Greenspan

I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I…

— Bruce Cockburn

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Criticism can only become 'constructive' for those willing to examine it for potential opportunities to improve themselves.

— TJ Taylor

The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and…

— Chrystia Freeland

People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you…

— Bill Walsh

My mom is usually the first one I text after every game. She definitely gives me some constructive criticism but also tells…

— Austin Reaves

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher…

— George Osborne

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and…

— Henry James

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

— Harold Rosenberg

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

— Dick Cavett