Criticism Quotes - Page 3

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me.

Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments.

Censorship exists to protect corruption.

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

To maintain our own economy,we are disturbing the nature's economy

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

#1. Spend more time considering evidences of grace in other Christians than you do pondering their sins and weaknesses. You, as a Christian, probably have a much greater ability to see weakness in other believers than to see strength. It is as if you use a magnifying glass when looking for weakness and a telescope when looking for grace. Brooks warns, "Sin is darkness, grace is light; sin is hell, grace is heaven; and what madness is it to look more at darkness than at light, more at hell than at heaven." Indeed.

When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said.

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

Critics! Appalled I ventured on the name.Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.

I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

The great philosopher, Aristotle had this to say in regards to criticism. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first li

Criticism always produces negative reactions, but appreciation always creates positive actions.

Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

To point out nonepistemic motives in another’s view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person’s connection to the world as it is.

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.

Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery....I hate it because of all the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the very first ones to get killed off. It is the brutal egotists that survive.

Surely it is the one who fears he is wrong who avoids criticism. The one who is sure he is right invites it. It only illuminates the strength of beliefs and makes them more available to others.

She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of obscurity.

I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.

The critics only made me work harder.

Society in its boundless ignorance ridicules the caterpillar but praises the butterfly.

Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what they are and what they do, they will discover suppressed Nietzschean premises. And consequently it is possible to predict with confidence that in the apparently quite unlikely contexts of bureaucratically managed modern societies there will periodically emerge social movements informed by just that kind of prophetic irrationalism of which Nietzsche's thought is the ancestor. Indeed just because and insofar as contemporary Marxism is Weberian in substance we can expect prophetic irrationalisms of the left as well as of the Right.

A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

The most successful critics are always scribbling things in their programs, largely because it gives them an important and industrious air. Also, it is interesting to try to figure out what you've written afterward. Last week, for instance, I made a very helpful note during the second act of a drama called "They Walk Alone." "Lanchstr get face stuck 1 these nights awful if," it seemed to say.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Anyone can criticize. It is important to be a person who can appreciate and show the way to betterment.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

I only accept and pay attention to feedback from people who are also in the arena. If you're occasionally getting your butt kicked as you respond, and if you're also figuring out how to stay open to feedback without getting pummeled by insults, I'm more likely to pay attention to your thought about my work. If, on the other hand, you're not helping, contributing, or wrestling with your own gremlins, I'm not at all interested in your commentary.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Some criticism, no doubt, is constructive, but too much is a subtle poison.

Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.

Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies.