Criticizing Quotes
147 quotes by 130 authors
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I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
— Albert Ellis
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable…
— Sam Harris
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Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to…
— Erica Jong
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If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.
— Joel Osteen
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When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior…
— Adora Svitak
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As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter.…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to 'Basketball Wives,' 'Housewives…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
— Loretta Young
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Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology…
— Greg Graffin
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.
— Vaclav Havel
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I had much more fun criticizing than praising.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying…
— Rumi
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Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in…
— Christian Bauman
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The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin…
— Dale Carnegie
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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a…
— Anais Nin
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core…
— Sylvia Plath
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You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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