I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong — Paul Scholes Copy Share Image
Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“In short, I am amenable to criticism, but only within the sphere of what I am trying to do; I will not… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
My criticism of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan was that it was outside the four corners of the Clean Air Act. — Andrew R. Wheeler Copy Share Image
In the corporate media, there is almost no criticism of corporations or American empire. — Abby Martin Copy Share Image
Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
It takes humility to ask a question about your performance. And even more humility to consider the answer. — Senora Roy 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
You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Has someone offended you? Has someone insulted you? Remember; insults and unjust criticism are like bad coins. You cannot avoid getting them,… — Dada JP Vaswani Copy Share Image
Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize… — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
The only two TV shows I saw do that, where they don't warm them up and you can really bomb, was Saturday… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There was a criticism that stuck with me a little bit, which is that somebody said that I was jumping on a… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
“Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism… — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989… — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism. — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego. — Mike Brearley Copy Share Image
Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning. — Richard King Copy Share Image
Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
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