Quotes About Critique

India is constipated with a lot of humbug. Take modern Indian music of the films. It is all tango & rhumba or samba played on Hawaiian guitars, violins, accordions & clarinets. It is ugly. It must be scrapped like the rest.

If your workshop praises a poem, don't think everyone is too nice to tell you how terrible it really is. (If it is that kind of workshop, you should get out of it as soon as possible—honest feedback is the sign that people respect your writing and take it seriously.)

that.When you launch a difficult operation, you always get criticized.

Create ways to foster alternative view and constructive criticism. Assign people to play the devils advocate, taking opposing viewpoints so you can see the holes in your position. Get people to wage debates that argue different sides of the issue. Have an anonymous suggestion box that employees must contribute to as part of the decision-making proces. Remember, people can be independent thinkers and team players at the same time, help them fill both roles.

Elige a alguien que ejerza el papel de abogado del diablo, que tome puntos de vista opuestos a los tuyos de modo que puedas ver los puntos débiles de tu decisión.

Human beings are afflicted by a need to judge.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

The almost-always-ghastly exclamation point has been lately compared to canned laughter.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best.

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you, there, of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where's the bloody horse?

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

The verses which he published in various reviews from time to time, and the neatly copied poems which he sent to his friends, superiors, and important personages, were neither much better nor much worse than thousands of other verse products of the day.