Quotes About Criticism

People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.

If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.

I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does not decrease his love toward him.

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.

Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.

Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.

There's people that like you and there's people that don't like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion—and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings

It is because of of Freud, Jung, Nietzsche—and Orwell—that I always wonder, "What, then, do you stand against?" whenever I hear someone say, too loudly, "I stand for this!" The question seems particularly relevant if the same someone is complaining, criticizing, or trying to change someone else's behaviour.

Cuando la estructura de una institución se ha vuelto corrupta -sobre todo de acuerdo a sus propios principios- criticarla es un acto de amistad.

It's also not for the best that all human corruption is uncritically laid at society's feet. That conclusion merely displaces the problem, back in time.

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

cualquier jerarquía engendra ganadores y perdedores. Los ganadores, obviamente, tienen más probabilidades de justificar la jerarquía y los perdedores, de criticarla.

You don't get to leap from being a 17 year old naughthead who doesn't know anything and who isn't disciplined to the critic of Judeo-Christian society. Especially when you can look at your own life and think about how many things you are doing you know are wrong and you could fix that you aren't fixing.

The Christian church described by the Grand Inquisitor is the same church pilloried by Nietzsche. Childish, sanctimonious, patriarchal, servant of the state, that church is everything rotten still objected to by modern critics of Christianity.

If the internal voice makes you doubt the value of your endeavours—or your life, or life itself—perhaps you should stop listening. If the critical voice within says the same denigrating things about everyone, no matter how successful, how reliable can it be? Maybe its comments are chatter, not wisdom.