I'll take criticism. I know that's part and parcel of football. But when it's just reckless and aggressive, I don't listen. — Jack Wilshere Copy Share Image
Not all criticism is valuable or makes sense, but there are some, which do, and I take those very seriously. — Akshara Haasan Copy Share Image
Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You can't be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life's masterpiece with only… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Human beings are inherently misled into subjective fantasies, but there's a saving grace. We all have different delusions. Other people don't necessarily… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In fact, by Democrats pursuing the strategy of attacking everything President Trump does as the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it stuff, their criticism has just become white… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly… — J. Michael Bishop Copy Share Image
Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
One of the important things about marriage is to be accepted. Love is the basis of marriage, but there are many married… — Charles L. Allen Copy Share Image
“Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When I was young, I went to college, had a teacher who was, had been a student of Trilling's at Columbia, this… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The criticisms that are often presented to us by some in the conservative Jewish community about our Palestinian version are: first, that… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A lot of coaching is about results and if you don't get the right results, you're going to get criticism, but if… — Warren Gatland Copy Share Image
You can't judge a man by the clothing he wears or the way he looks! You have to look deeper in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If there's a criticism of 'Cassadaga' that I agreed with, it's that we left things in the oven too long, that songs… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
