Quotes About Criticism

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't

Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.

Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth

the public has always loved Social Security; they do not want it to change; they like it the way it is. In fact, the only real criticism from the public is that the cost of living adjustment (the COLA) is inadequate in keeping up with rising costs.

If she is clearly right, find fault with her that has nothing to do with the incident, and use that.

The dumb fox knows that the less she criticizes, the better. Which is why she doesn't nag. Instead, she maneuvers.

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

Wait, here comes Cooper. In which case, carry on with your melodramatic moaning, but put some majesty into it. You know he lives to hear you judge everything as unworthy.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.

I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often get criticized, as I try to exercise what I believe to be right. However, if you mind such criticism, I think you can't protect people's lives.

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

I was a human rights defender, and I based my criticisms of the state on legal grounds. But authoritarian governments are not fond of shades of gray; they cannot tolerate any criticism at all

This MGM flurry of concern about my body was unnerving. Having always taken my appearance for granted, I felt suddenly misshapen. Even Mother, whose earlier comments had always been good-natured, joined the critical chorus. [...] Stuck with myself, once again I resolved to stay friends with my body.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby Success does not mean being liked and accepted by everyone. There are some groups I would not want to be accepted by, out of choice. I would rather be criticised by fools than appreciated by cheats and crooks. I see success as a manifestation of good luck that results from aspiration, inspiration and perspiration—generally in that sequence.

The need to appreciated should always be backed by the courage to be criticized.

Your good times decide whether you are criticized or forgotten during your bad times.

The system has little capacity for self-criticism; it appraises others, not itself. It didn't even allow itself to hear the full story behind the actions it was judging, and it certainly didn't recognize that the legal system's own shortcomings were a significant contributing factor in the tragedy.

Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Reflection opens the avenue to criticism, and the folkways may not like criticism. In this way, ideologies become closed circles, primed to feel outraged by the questioning mind.

Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.