Quotes About Criticism

There's so much being said about Donald Trump already, all the time, and the more you joke about him, the more you risk making the same jokes other people are making about him.

El que de otros habla mal, a sí mismo se condena.

there's a hormone secreted into the bloodstream of most writers that makes them hate their own work while they are doing it, or immediately after. This, coupled with the chorus of critical reaction from those privileged to take a first look, is almost enough to discourage further work entirely.

Lorimer for his part was contemptuous of the municipal reformers, calling them hypocrites who were using the reform cause as a means of increasing their own power and influence.

Marx's work has often been dismissed as 'crude dogma', usually by people who give no evidence of having read him.

ésta es una ciudad donde, en los últimos cuarenta años, los valores de la gente han ido cambiando más rápidamente que en el resto del país. ¿Por qué? Porque aquí están las universidades más grandes y más importantes, y eso lo cambia todo: eso incrementa el número de personas que piensan, que critican y analizan; se vuelven más sensibles y tolerantes.

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.

Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

The pleasure men take in denigration of the gifted is one of the puzzles of life

Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.

The guy who wrote The Doors of Perception got off way easier, though, especially since the worst band in the history of the world, the Doors, named themselves after it. He has a lot to answer for.

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Raven Stone and Don Carson are the stupidest fucking people on the planet because their mothers didn't breastfeed them.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Harry Harlow, a well-known American primatologist, was an early critic of the hunger reduction model. He argued that intelligent animals learn mostly through curiosity and free exploration, both of which are likely killed by a narrow fixation on food. He poked fun at the Skinner box, seeing it as a splendid instrument to demonstrate the effectiveness of food rewards but not to study complex behavior.

Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.