Quotes About Criticism

It seems abusive or damaging to people's self-esteem to offer them stern, realistic criticism, to set them tasks that will make them aware of how far they have to go. In fact, this indulgence and fear of hurting people's feelings is far more abusive in the long run. It makes it hard for people to gauge where they are or to develop self-discipline. It makes them unsuited for the rigors of the journey to mastery. It weakens people's will.

For Chinese courtiers, the problem of how to give the emperor advice was an important issue. Over the years, thousands of them had died trying to warn or counsel their master. To be made safely, their criticisms had to be indirect—yet if they were too indirect they would not be heeded. The chronicles were their solution: Identify no one person as the source of criticism, make the advice as impersonal as possible, but let the emperor know the gravity of the situation.

If the world's ending, a woman will take time to tell a man something he's done wrong.

the onerous part of being the district attorney was putting up with an exploitative and sensationalizing media and dealing with a myriad of special-interest groups, all of whom thought they were being ignored, or discriminated against, or deserved more, and all of whom knew that they could do his job better than he could. He was also tired of watching incompetent judges and ethically challenged lawyers make a mockery of the system.

I don't like your eyes. They belong on a dead fish.

We have a long tradition in America of electing a president, celebrating him for a few days, and then spending four or eight years demonizing him, reviling him, or blindly defending him.

Leaders can—and, when necessary, must—level tough criticism at individuals, but due regard for their dignity requires doing it in private, not adding embarrassment and humiliation to the equation. Criticism, done privately, is far more likely to bring about constructive change. "Praise in public, criticize in private," as the saying goes.

The president said he would think about what I had said. Then he shocked me as the breakfast ended by saying that he wished he'd made the change in secretary of defense "a couple of years earlier." It was the only thing I ever heard him say even indirectly critical of Rumsfeld.

This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

I was an outsider who seemed more interested in attacking what was being taught than learning from it.

This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind

Those who thus seek to screen an idol from criticism only betray their own suspicions about the worthiness of the totem they worship.

In contrast, conservatives heavily value loyalty, authority, and sanctity. Obviously, this is a big difference. Is it okay to criticize your group to outsiders? Rightists: no, that's disloyal. Leftists: yes, if justified. Should you ever disobey a law? Rightists: no, that undermines authority. Leftists: of course, if it's a bad law. Is it okay to burn the flag? Rightists: never, it's sacred. Leftists: come on, it's a piece of cloth.

Das Unmoralische gewinnt sein himmlisches Recht als eine drastische Kritik des Moralischen!

Politics is action and all action is but a flaw in the perfection of inaction, which is peace, just as all being is but a flaw in the perfection of nonbeing. Which is God. For if God is perfection and the only perfection is in nonbeing, then God is nonbeing. Then God is nothing. Nothing can give no basis for the criticism of Thing in its thingness. Then where do you get anything to say? Then where do you get off?

Here she was, stretched out on her back on a concrete bench, reading a book. It was The fountainhead , that noxious piece of crap that was then enjoying a certain vogue.

If you enjoy knocking self-publishing writers, write something better first, then, knock on!

I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.

I talk about freedom from the Rat Race, and they focus on toilets. That is the thought pattern that keeps most people poor. They criticize instead of analyze.

Haz lo que tu corazón te diga que es lo correcto porque de todas formas te van a criticar. Mal si lo haces y mal si no lo haces.

Los cínicos critican y los ganadores analizan.

La avaricia es buena." Padre rico lo articuló de otra manera: "La culpa es peor que la avaricia porque la culpa le roba el alma al cuerpo." Pero creo que Eleanor Roosevelt lo expresó aún mejor: "Haz lo que tu corazón te diga que es lo correcto porque de todas formas te van a criticar. Mal si lo haces y mal si no lo haces.

Padre Rico nos explicaba que la crítica podía cegarnos, en tanto que el análisis abriría nuestros ojos. El análisis le permite a los ganadores identificar que los críticos están ciegos y notar oportunidades que los demás soslayan. Esto es fundamental porque la clave del éxito está en encontrar lo que las otras personas dejan pasar.

Yo les estoy hablando de liberarse de la Carrera de la Rata y ellos se enfocan en inodoros. Este es el tipo de esquema de pensamiento que mantiene a tanta gente pobre. Critican en lugar de analizar.