Quotes About Criticism

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

When I was in my early 30s and appeared on CNN, Oprah, 20/20 and Entertainment Tonight, my loved ones didn't say, "Good job!" My loved ones said, "The camera adds more than 20 pounds." One detail-oriented aunt said "Not for nothing, but don't wear red. You look like an ad for Red Lobster.

The ego lies in wait for the opportunity to list someone's supposed faults (according to the ego's conditioning). So it's never long before the judgments and reservations begin to flow.

A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

She just kept on criticizing me, but for contradictory reasons.

escribía sus Elogios de los escritores célebres

If they have a dull wit, let them not reproach the poets for their indolence, nor insist against them with frivolous barks.

L'Onu è un baraccone di piccole virtù. Chi lo magnifica come una mirabile entità salvifica è un illuso e probabilmente un ipocrita.

Speaking with John McWhorter] I take umbrage at the lionisation of lightweight, empty-suited, empty-headed motherfuckers like Ibram X. Kendi. Who couldn't carry my book bag. He hasn't read a fucking thing. If you ask him what Nietzsche said, he would have no idea. He's an unserious, superficial, empty-suited, lightweight - he's not our equal, not even close.

I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington.

Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.

Zacz??am dostrzega?, ?e dla niektórych religia stanowi po prostu formÄ™ polityki, której nie wolno krytykowa?.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.

Never, ever doubt your talents in fear of criticism. The purpose of being is to SHARE who YOU are.

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another's virtues more than we speak of one another's faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: "Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.

To have a simple, untroubled faith, you must keep your spiritual innocence. That requires avoiding cynicism and criticism. This is the day of the cynics, the critics, and the pickle-suckers. Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes a catalyst that leads to failure. In the Church, it sows the seed of inactivity and finally apostasy.

Don't take it personally. Just take it seriously.

The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like — then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

A critic would sacrifice the entire rose to find fault with the thorn.

Reviewers are forever telling authors, they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?

...but yet they grumbled. Such is human-nature. The man who drinks beer at home always criticizes the champagne, and finds fault with the Burgundy when he is invited out to dinner.

I don't mind adverse criticism. It doesn't matter if I'm misinterpreted because not everyone will understand what I'm trying to say.