We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope? — Francis Arthur Freeth Copy Share Image
Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because… — Gregory Mcdonald Copy Share Image
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
The moment you stop caring about what other people think of you is when you'll know what true freedom is. — Lisette Alfaro Copy Share Image
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, 'Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.' People need to… — Wim Hof Copy Share Image
There's no more immediate criticism than silence, but there's also no more immediate reward than laughter. — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
For all the criticism I've been showered with - people calling me a betrayer, a backstabber - frankly, the only criticism I… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
If you think you're going to come and play for Man United and you're not going to get a little bit of… — Scott McTominay Copy Share Image
Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
“Nations not possessing great power can indulge in the luxury of criticism of others; those possessing it have the responsibility of decision.… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I would play the songs for my mom, and she would give me pretty good criticism on them. She was never mean,… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while -… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
“Thus, since time immemorial, it has been customary to accept the criticism of art from a man who may or may not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I think I have always sort of cultivated a flowery writing style. I've always sort of over - written in every genre… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
While it may be tempting to bask fully in the glory of success, remember: When a CEO takes too much credit for… — Judy Smith Copy Share Image
Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let people say whatever they like, but that's just opinion, not the fact. Don't let them make you doubt yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part and parcel of being an international sportsman is dealing with fair or unfair criticism and also when you are on the… — Stuart Broad Copy Share Image
Nobody elses opinion on you matters but your own. Believe in yourself, be yourself, and make yourself happy. — Slowly_fading Copy Share Image
No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
On your way to the top, you always get some chriticism. Criticism is a great motivation. — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear. — David Brin Copy Share Image
