Quotes About Criticism

In the matter of belief, I have always found that defenses have the same irrelevance about them as the criticisms they are meant to answer. I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things. We participate in Being without remainder. No breath, no thought, no wart or whisker, is not as sunk in Being as it could be. And yet no one can say what Being is.

The only prerequisites for a writer are a word processor and thick skin.

Increasingly the United States found itself isolated. Having for two decades enjoyed its status as champion of the free world, it was increasingly the target of bitter criticism abroad and at home, where a growing number of prominent intellectuals and church leaders denounced the bombing campaign as barbaric. The military might disdain the fickle nature of public sympathy, but a democracy cannot sustain a war effort without it, and moral revulsion was growing.

We say no to sin because we are holy in Christ. We endure the criticism of those who hate us because God loves us in Christ. We endure ostracism from others because God welcomes us in Christ. We are not what we do. We do what we are. Our identity determines our activity. This was true for Jesus, and it's true for those who are in Christ. Our identity as new creations in Christ is the key to our victory like Christ.

Simply, a complaint attacks the problem, whereas a criticism attacks the person.

Aldus Manutius denounced the Lyonnais printers and listed the many errors in their books, but the Lyonnais, rather than apologizing or denying the theft, simply used his denunciations to make corrections.

anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule." The

If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

our" reaction on the errors found in Mike Mann's work were not especially honest.

the beauty of the climate-change circus is that you never need to ask "Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewers?" Mann peer-reviewed Jones, and Jones peer-reviewed Mann, and anyone who questioned their views got exiled to the unwarmed wastes of Siberia.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

Chaque jour et partout dans le monde il y a des hommes en cercle autour d'une femme, prêts à lui jeter la pierre.

Try arguing the virtues of Nello on chowhound.com, or a similar online meeting ground for knowledgeable food nerds, and prepare to get pilloried.

After level of skills, it's how sensitive you are to criticism and perceived insult — and how well you can give it right back — that determines your place in the food chain.

We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

Attacks on me are, quite frankly, attacks on science.

A certain amount of brick-throwing might even be a good thing. There comes a moment in the career of most artists, if they are any good, when attacks on their work take a form almost more acceptable than praise. That happens at different moments in different careers.

It was clear he had remained unflustered by recent public events, at the age he had reached perhaps disillusioned with the commonplaces of life; too keen a theatre-goer to spare time for any but the columns of dramatic criticism, however indifferently written, permitting no international crises from the news pages to cloud the keenness of aesthetic consideration. That was an understandable outlook.

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. —ARISTOTLE

It's fascinating and quite sad that we live in a time where the media is salivating to take down anyone considered to be "best in class." Culture seems to lift them onto a pedestal of perfection only to hope they come crashing down. Whether it's an athlete, a CEO, or a money manager, any false move or seemingly slight crack in the armor is exploited to the fullest. Stone them in the town square of television and the internet.

The future has many names. For the weak, it's unattainable. For the fearful, it's unknown. For the bold, it's ideal. —VICTOR HUGO To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. —ARISTOTLE

Unfriendly' witnesses and those who opposed the hearings, such as John Huston, Katharine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, were vilified.