Criticism Quotes · Page 47

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

— Aleksandra Mir

Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

— John Dryden

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

— Scott Adams

Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

— Albert Einstein

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Criticism is the seed of divorce, and it develops rebellion in our young.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

— Joseph Conrad

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

— Dag Hammarskjold

“...and - holy shit was this song bad. It was like the singer was stabbing my ear with a dagger made of…

— David Wong

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down…

— Joyce Meyer

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

— John Steinbeck

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has…

— George Saintsbury

I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist…

— Claire Messud

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

— Norman Vincent Peale

I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.

— Ogden Nash

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really…

— Scott Hamilton

I think comedians get too much credit or too much criticism for the style of comedy they do, and they generally do…

— Jim Gaffigan

I don't think much about the issues after they come out. I like it when people like them. Often, when people have…

— Lorin Stein

There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would…

— Peter Mullan

Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially…

— Jill Abramson

The thought of bringing a cake into a dance music show is a bizarre one. The idea of rafting on top of…

— Steve Aoki

If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I…

— Chuck Klosterman

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of…

— George Lucas

The way I feel about Crunk Feminists. Here you have a bunch of bloggers who are not even quoting any feminists' works…

— Talib Kweli

...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...("…

— J. Paul Getty

...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as…

— Israel Zangwill

Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is…

— Anonymous

“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer…

— Disney PIXAR

Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as…

— Fernando Pessoa

I'm not angry. As an athlete ... you should be open to criticism, and you're allowed to be criticized, because not everybody…

— Roger Federer

“The character traits which you do not appreciate about another person are also the very same tools that person has used to…

— C. JoyBell C

“The best way to Prove your critics wrong is to Improve yourself”

— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Before you judge someone, make sure you're perfect.

— Anonymous

Arrogant person's life depends on praise and criticism by others.

— Mak_786

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

— Dustin Hoffman

I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.

— Noel Coward

Believe in your strength more than anyone can ever make you doubt it.

— Senora Roy

Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.

— Bill Crawford

If you worry of what people have to say about you, you will always be very worried.

— Mufti Ismail Menk