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Quotes About Criticism

Good singing is learning how to transmit learning musical information with your voice in a way that everybody can relate to. But as a woman you just get a lot of criticism because everyone sees you like a raw lump of clay that needs some help.
~ Weyes Blood
The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.
~ Sloane Crosley
Me doy cuenta que Dios nunca puede bendecirnos si somos duros de corazón, si somos criticones, o si no perdonamos. Esto impedirá la fe más rápido que cualquier otra cosa.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
Think not faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults
~ Socrates
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
~ Socrates
My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
~ Socrates
A Life without criticism and status is not a worth living.
~ Socrates
Si pensáis que matando a la gente vais a impedir que se os reproche que no vivís rectamente, no pensáis bien. Este medio de evitarlo ni es muy eficaz, ni es honrado. El más honrado y el más sencillo no es reprimir a los demás, sino prepararse para ser lo mejor posible.
~ Socrates
A man's mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
como si el hecho de tener un ejército de acólitos sin criterio fuese capaz de probar algo. Sólo hay que fijarse en la situación política para ver que las cosas no pueden funcionar de ese modo.
~ Sophie Hannah
Author? Author? Did you write these legs?' 'Yes." 'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.
~ Spike Milligan
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
~ SPIRO AGNEW
Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment, too. It guarantees my free speech as it does their freedom of the press… There is room for all of us – and for our divergent views – under the First Amendment.
~ SPIRO AGNEW
Why do you enjoy finding fault with others? Is there not a better way to feel good? Such
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
So this smart, overpaid, sassy dude goes into his first major meeting with our then-CEO, Mark. He spends a fair amount of time shitting on the efforts of the corporation to date, and making a lot of noises about revamping the entire landscape and not with a spade and shovel, either, no, with some very heavy machinery. In the process, he evinces almost no particular knowledge of our company, and also manages to poop on the parades of everyone sitting around the table, including Mark's.
~ Stanley Bing
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.
~ Stanley Kubrick
[Referring to people who are critical of others:] You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, you're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
~ William Penn
Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.
~ John F. Kennedy
You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.
~ Hope Solo
I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth
~ Aneurin Bevan
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
~ H. L. Mencken
People are always going to say stuff about you and there are always going to be crazy rumours out there, but as long as you know the truth, you're fine.
~ Vanessa Hudgens
All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
~ Samuel Johnson