Quotes About Criticism

Others can't stand to revise; instead they decide they're avant-garde, so everybody who doesn't like their work is unenlightened. (Note: being avant-garde is now... well, garde.)

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.

It can sometimes come off as an insult or judgmental, like you are trying to put them down. For

There has probably never been a generation since the paleolithic that did not deplore the fecklessness of the next and worship a golden memory of the past.

The Brazilian diplomat Josué de Castro, in his book The Geopolitics of Hunger, was even bolder in his criticism of the neo-Malthusians, saying that 'The road to survival, therefore, does not lie in the neo-Malthusian prescriptions to eliminate surplus people, nor in birth control, but in the effort to make everybody on the face of the earth productive.' In

A lot of people are afraid of critique because they think it means you aren't supporting them. For me, the most important thing in any kind of relationship is the critical engagement.

The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're decoding

The essay I had to read was called, An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in heroic couplets. If something is called an essay, it should be an essay.

no speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.

Your kind of intellectuals are the first to scream when it's safe—and the first to shut their traps at the first sign of danger. They spend years spitting at the man who feeds them—and they lick the hand of the man who slaps their drooling faces.

Sayg? duymad???n?z insanlardan gelen övgü ve hayranl???n ne önemi var?

No, you can never ruin an architect by proving that he's a bad architect. But you can ruin him because he's an atheist, or because somebody sued him, or because he slept with some woman, or because he pulls wings off bottleflies. You'll say it doesn't make sense? Of course it doesn't. That's why it works. Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable?

No son mis pecados lo que usan para perjudicarme, sino mis virtudes;

But you're wrong, Paul, you're so wrong! What would happen to Henry's vanity if he didn't have us to throw alms to? What would become of his strength if he didn't have weaker people to dominate? What would he do with himself if he didn't keep us around as dependents? It's quite all right, really, I'm not criticizing him, it's just a law of human nature.

Pero te encontrarás con gente que intentará herirte através de lo bueno que haya en ti, sabiendo que es bueno, necesitándolo y aborreciéndote por ello. No te dejes atropellar cuando descubras semejante actitud en los otros.

He has demonstrated his own weakness: an inability to read a novel on its own terms. All he knows is judgment

His critics, like H. G. Wells, blamed him for his mandarin attitude towards life, which prevented him from any involvement with the social and political issues of the day.

This is what separates even the most liberal writers from their conservative counterparts—the willingness to flay politicians on their own side.)

Getting things done meant subjecting yourself to criticism, and the alternative—playing it safe, avoiding controversy, following the polls—was not only a recipe for mediocrity but a betrayal of the hopes of those citizens who'd put you in office.

I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people — and this is accelerated by social media — there is this sense sometimes of: 'The way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people, and that's enough.'" He added: "If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far. That's easy to do.

subjecting yourself to criticism, and the alternative—playing it safe, avoiding controversy, following the polls—was not only a recipe for mediocrity but a betrayal of the hopes of those citizens who'd put you in office.

if Abbas had been a younger man, more intent on making his mark than protecting himself from criticism.

there is a certain liberation that comes from realizing that no matter what you do, someone will be angry at you

As a matter of principle, I didn't believe a president should ever publicly whine about criticism from voters—it's what you signed up for in taking the job—and I was quick to remind both reporters and friends that my white predecessors had all endured their share of vicious personal attacks and obstructionism.