Quotes About Criticism

Die Selbstkritik hat viel für sich. Gesetzt den Fall, ich tadle mich; So hab' ich erstens den Gewinn, Daß ich so hübsch bescheiden bin; Zum zweiten denken sich die Leut, Der Mann ist lauter Redlichkeit; Auch schnapp' ich drittens diesen Bissen Vorweg den andern Kritiküssen; Und viertens hoff' ich außerdem Auf Widerspruch, der mir genehm. So kommt es denn zuletzt heraus, Daß ich ein ganz famoses Haus.

It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

Either you like Henry VIII or you don't. He has been much criticized for beheading two of his wives. In a way, he has only himself to blame. Any man who beheads fwo of his wives musf expect a little talk. He shouldn't have done it, but you know how those things are. As a matter of fact, Henry merely let the law take its course, but some people feel that a really thoughtful husband would have done something about it

Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own.

it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own.

If you visit a courtroom you will observe that lawyers apply two styles of criticism: to demolish a case they raise doubts about the strongest arguments that favor it; to discredit a witness, they focus on the weakest part of the testimony

She says experience has taught her that criticism is more effective than praise. What she doesn't understand is that it's all due to regression to the mean.

Boswell spent much of the evening lamenting his country's dreadful politics. Isherwood listened attentively. Inwardly, however, he wondered why it was that enlightened Americans always found it necessary to bash their country whenever they set foot in the mother ship. "I'm

Don't let people's words bring you down

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Seríamos capaces de abuchear a Luciano Pavarotti si desafinara en su ópera prima, pero aplaudimos al líder de alabanza que «desafina para la gloria de Dios». Pedir

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

Bad intentions toward others. Pretending to be someone you're not. Coveting what others have. Gossip, slander, and harsh criticism. Who could Peter be talking to? He must be referring to those who have never experienced the love of God. Sadly, no. He is calling out his brothers and sisters in Christ. They know God and have tasted His goodness. Speaking to and through Peter, God is again reminding us: "I am holy; you be holy.

Second is the rise of higher criticism

Faultfinding is of little use and scant profit, for it is the mark of a shameless mind to prefer the role of the censorious critic to that of the creative poet. —FROM COPERNICUS'S Letter Against Werner, JUNE 3, 1524

People despise critics because people despise weakness, and criticism is the weakest thing you can do in writing. It is the written equivalent of air guitar—flurries of silent, sympathetic gestures with nothing at their heart but the memory of the music.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing." I can't help millions of people change their lives by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

had been a constant source of recrimination and criticism. He measured all people against his own unattainably anal standard. It was a standard which was too pathetically low to be measured, but which through the microscope of his own small mind he saw as perfect. ?But Peter, unencumbered by morality, held nobody to any standard. He knew that where there was no good, there could be no standard.

Many readers will be inclined to dismiss my arguments and will do so too hastily. When rejecting an unpopular view, it is extraordinarily easy to be overly confident in the force of one's responses. This is partly because there is less felt need to justify one's views when one is defending an orthodoxy. It is also partly because counter-responses from those critical of this orthodoxy, given their rarity, are harder to anticipate.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.