Quotes About Criticism

INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-pulling, but guiding, instructive, and inspirational--a south wind and not an east wind.

same spirit which gave it forth,—is the fundamental law of criticism. A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text. By degrees

Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth,—is the fundamental law of criticism.

I will treat all my negative reactions to this form of meditation as merely thought forms prompted by my ego to keep me from taking it seriously. I will suspend judgment, criticism, and doubt.

Reward is much more effective than punishment. If we want to encourage changes in someone's behavior, we are more likely to succeed by focusing on their positive actions than by criticizing their negative behavior.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it. - The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

How is it that the boy I was in October, 1929, could, because of the criticism of his fourth grade schoolmates, tear up his Buck Rogers comic strips and a month later judge all of his friends idiots and rush back to collecting?

Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel

Others have criticized, and they have criticized themselves, into embarrassment.

By the time many people are fourteen or fifteen, they have been divested of their loves, their ancient and intuitive tastes, one by one, until when they reach maturity there is no fun left, no zest, no gusto, no flavor. Others have criticized, and they have criticized themselves, into embarrassment.

Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas.

Hear a man too loudly praising others, and look to wonder if he didn't just get up from the sty.

What's worse than a Protestant? A Unitarian! It was no church and no faith at all.

Montag, os velhos que ficam em casa, receosos, cuidando de seus ossos quebradiços como casca de amendoim, não têm nenhum direito de criticar.

instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,...

Nobody, nobody is good enough

I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral.

He knew the magic monotony of existence between sky and water: he had to bear the criticism of men, the exactions of the sea, and the prosaic severity of the daily task that gives bread1—but whose only reward is in the perfect love of the work.

It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Incluso estalló una discusión entre dos de mis compañeros, un antiguo policía que criticó de manera virulenta al Gobierno y un exmaestro de escuela que le señaló que la protección social y los pagos por discapacidad de los que hoy dependía él mismo como expolicía provenían de ese Gobierno.

no contemporary painting could have any serious standing without a critical theory certifying and explaining it. Twenty-five years from

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. Yossarian