Criticism Quotes

1866 Criticism quotes by 1229 unique authors

I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn. — Maurice Strong
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one… — Mo Yan
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other… — Paul J. Meyer
The devil's happy when the critics run you off. — Criss Jami
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have… — Criss Jami
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited… — Vance Havner
One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing… — Criss Jami
I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested. — Melanie Lynskey
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. — George Edward Moore
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it… — Augustus William Hare
To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising. — Richard Hofstadter
The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion. — Ernest Holmes
One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this… — Jack Canfield
Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work… — John M Swomley
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe
The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come… — John Steinbeck
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace. — Samuel Johnson
This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without… — Walter Mosley
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on… — Quentin Crisp
The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty… — Jules de Goncourt
First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way… — Nicholson Baker
If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility… — Louis Bourdaloue
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book. — Tibor Fischer
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it.… — Denzel Washington
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the… — Leslie Fiedler

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