Quotes About Criticism

Ich habe noch nie einen Schriftsteller kennengelernt, der nicht eitel und nicht egozentrisch gewesen wäre – es sei denn, es war ein besonders schlechter Autor.

Wer Kritik als Beruf ausübt, weiß genau, was für ihn unentwegt auf dem Spiel steht – sein Renommee und damit die Basis seiner Existenz als Schriftsteller. Er kann es sich deshalb nicht leisten, leichtfertig zu urteilen.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

No matter how good a life you lead, you won't please everyone. Someone will be glad to see you go.

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

Quando alguém lhe difama ou odeia, ou quando clamam contra a sua pessoa insultos similares, busca penetrar suas almas e ver como eles realmente são. Assim, verá que não vale a pena se esforçar para que tais homens mudem de opinião ao seu respeito.

Que no te aparte que detrás venga la crítica o la palabra de algunos, por el contrario, si está bien hecho o bien dicho, no te subestimes. Ellos

Sudi o sebi sukladno svakoj rije?i ili djelu što su u skladu s prirodom i ne dopuštaj da te ikakve i i?ije zakašnjele kritike i uvjeravanja odvrate od toga .Ne, ako je to bilo dobro re?i ili u?initi, onda se ne odri?i vlastita prava. Te druge vodi njihov um i oni se pokoravaju vlastitim porivima. Neka te ništa takvo ne smeta, nastavi ravno naprijed i slijedi vlastitu prirodu kao i prirodu univerzuma - njih dvije kro?e jednom i istom stazom.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Gain ten pounds and they put you in Solitary.

Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth to mean story, without attaching any connotation of truth or falsehood to it; but a myth is a story of a certain kind. The myths of a culture are those stories it takes seriously—the ones that are thought to be a key to its identity.

Around the age of seven I wrote a play. The protagonist was a giant; the theme was crime and punishment; the crime was lying, as befits a future novelist; the punishment was being squashed to death by the moon.  ...This play was not a raging success. As I recall, my brother and his pals came in and laughed at it, thus giving me an early experience of literary criticism.

how outrageous could he get, in the realm of fatuous neologism, and still achieve praise?

Canlit might not exert the fascination of - say - a venereal wart.

I didn't like it when other people criticized Laura - her vagueness, her simplicity, her feckleness. Criticism of Laura was reserved for me.

In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.

I think overseas viewers assume that Black Mirror is written by the Unabomber, essentially - a Ludd­ite, technology-hating, angry old man waving his fist at the App Store.

Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

Faultfinding without suggestions for improvement is a waste of time.

People do give me a hard time about my hair because it's orange and it's big.