Quotes About Criticism

I don't mind a brother or sister in Christ calling me or any other believer a coward, moron, blind, immoral, demonic, and lacking in grace if it's true and motivated by love.

Don't just crit there siticising.

Clearly, not uncritical apologetics but penetrating and thoughtful criticism is alone capable of bringing out the treasures of experiences and teachings.

It was a mother's prerogative, to be affectionately critical of her child.

Tree of Smoke and excoriated Johnson

You've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

apparently London gave out my address! that's what they're saying...not just London, though! Brazzaville, too!...and said that I'm a dirty pornographer...a letch besides being the most despicable traitor of the century!...I'd make a urinal blush! that what we need is to cleanse France and the French language of this smut-writing, demoralizing, grammaclast who's sullying our sacred homeland and its literary heritage!

La tyrannie sans risque, sans peine... Ce sont les ratés les plus rances qui décrètent le goût du jour !... Qui ne sait rien foutre, loupe toutes ses entreprises possède encore un merveilleux recours : Critique !... Trouvaille inouïe des temps modernes, plus aucun compte jamais à rendre. Critique ne relève que de son propre culot, de ses sales petites gardiens des plus fienteux égouts... Tout en ombres, baves, toxines, immondices, curées...

No use in trying to please everybody. No use in trying to please critics. Live under you own hat. Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember- pinewoods are just as real as pigsties, and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

She had an uneasy feeling that it was rather sinful to set one's heart so intensely on any human creature as she had set hers on Anne, and perhaps she performed a sort of unconscious penance for this by being stricter and more critical than if the girl had been less dear to her.

Certainly my work is negative, destructive; but … only in relation to the unhuman, not to the human[.]

we are ready enough to note the faults of others, while all the time unconscious of our own.

No one understands us seventh-sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to get a life by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.

When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to "get a life" by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves. Naturally we become timid about making our insights known, in such inhospitable conditions.

No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, Good food at it's best, you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked uo on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

Siamo gente di Teflon, con noi le critiche non attaccano.

Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners. No marriage can be judged truly successful unless husband and wife are each other's best critics.

If they love their children parents must, sparingly and carefully perhaps but nonetheless actively, confront and criticize them from time to time, just as they must allow their children to confront and criticize themselves in turn. Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners.

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged. The only way that we can be certain that our map of reality is valid is to expose it to the criticism and challenge of other map-makers.

To fail to confront when confrontation is required for the nurture of spiritual growth represents a failure to love equally as does thoughtless criticism or condemnation and other forms of active deprivation of caring.

O que eu peço à crítica vem a ser — intenção benévola, mas expressão franca e justa. Aplausos, quando os não fundamenta o mérito, afagam certamente o espírito e dão algum verniz de celebridade; mas quem tem vontade de aprender e quer fazer alguma coisa, prefere a lição que melhora ao ruído que lisonjeia.

A falta de uma crítica assim é um dos maiores males de que padece a nossa literatura; é mister que a análise corrija ou anime a invenção, que os pontos de doutrina e de história se investiguem, que as belezas se estudem, que os senões se apontem, que o gosto se apure e eduque, e se desenvolva e caminhe aos altos destinos que a esperam.

She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.