Criticism Quotes

1866 Criticism quotes by 1229 unique authors

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude. — Joyce Meyer
Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to… — Joyce Meyer
Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they… — Joyce Meyer
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. — Henry Miller
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors. — Beverley Mitchell
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. — Wilson Mizner
I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality. — Michael Moore
I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good. — Van Morrison
Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all… — Steven Morrissey
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. — Iris Murdoch
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value. — George Jean Nathan
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether… — George Jean Nathan
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more… — Sandra Day O'Connor
I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that… — Sandra Day O'Connor
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of… — P.J. O'Rourke
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather… — Joyce Carol Oates
It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it… — Conor Oberst
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. — Susie Orbach
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards… — George Orwell
I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to… — Joel Osteen
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. — Octavio Paz
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. — Norman Vincent Peale
Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism. — Jodi Picoult

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