Quotes About Criticism

scientific knowledge is advanced by the systematic criticism and purging of what currently passes for knowledge, so in religion too we need to criticize and expel all the illusory and dysfunctional religious material we have inherited.

He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom under encouragement.

I absolutely LOVE a one-star review. It means that I successfully pissed someone off enough to make them respond! In an age of sheeple...my God! That's a miracle!!

Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.

It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said, 'I can write better than that!' It was amazing how many of them were wrong.

The distinguishing marks of fundamentalism in the broad sense are: biblical literalism; total inerrancy, including perfect factual accuracy; revelation as essentially propositional; a profound distrust of biblical criticism, especially higher criticism; premillennial eschatology; and the call to separate from apostate churches.

It is best to believe the praiser and dismiss the praise.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Don't worry about what people say behind your back, they are the people who are finding faults in your life instead fixing the faults in their own life.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

To succeed in life, you must have the courage to be hated.

Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don't care either way to join the 33% who love you

The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.

If the only way I can make myself look good is to criticize you, something is seriously wrong with me.

Just remember that a pat on the back is only 18 inches from a kick in the behind.

I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.