Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward & when to listen to constructive criticism.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overcome failures.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“The effective criticism is the one that focuses on behavior not on the personality. The difference between both realizes it every rational… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the… — Jacques Bertin Copy Share Image
Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist... Anyone who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
One of the things I always underscore when I teach criticism is that young critics, or would be critics, frequently have this… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It is not just that it is profoundly offensive to the leaders and people of a democratic Germany to paint Hitler on… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
“ The Scholars "Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Don't get annoyed by what other people say or think about you... you are you and you are a unique individual who… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them. — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
There are times when the criticism is something you deserve as a quarterback, and there are times when the people doing the… — Matt Cassel Copy Share Image
Never judge a person from the outside,look at the inside cause someday you might be impressed. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing. — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner -… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get… — Anne Beatts Copy Share Image
No matter what other people thank of you, you know who you are, and don't let them tell you otherwise and ignore… — Kailey Franklin Copy Share Image
The only way I will leave this job will be because of results. I'm too stubborn to quit because of criticism -… — Sven-Goran Eriksson Copy Share Image
We can all take criticism as long as it's constructive. When it's complete lies, that's when it's disappointing. — Steve Bruce Copy Share Image
Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning… — Meridith Valiando Rojas Copy Share Image