Quotes About Criticism

I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.

If you choose to surrender your pen to God, you will probably face the odd looks and stares from your friends or family members who won't understand your choices. They may think you're not doing enough to "make this happen" on your own.

I think half the trees in the world are felled to make up the IIT entrance exam guides. Most of them are crap

Some experts even say the idea of India is wrong;

Television brings us to another accusation I should like to refute. We often hear the criticism that there is too much violence. Screen producers need not be told that television violence is very much like an iceberg. Only a small fraction of it is visible on the screen. The public should see what goes on behind the scenes.

Have we no sins of our own to amend that we have all this time for barking and biting at the vices of our neighbours?... Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

No one has a sorrier lot than the weatherman. He is ignored when he is right, but execrated when he is wrong.

I must confess I did not always relish his misquotations, which sometimes made absolute nonsense of the passages; but what author stands upon trifles when he is praised?

EDITOR... a bit of sandpaper applied to all forms of originality by the publisher-proprietor...

Virgo: "You missed a spot."

A mugwump is a man in politics who never votes for anybody, but who is always voting against somebody.

Ralph Ellison's essays were models for me when I began my life as a critic. Slipping cultural yokes and violating aesthetic boundaries, he made criticism high-stakes work, especially for a black critic.

Let them hate. Just make sure they spell your name right.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

Is constructive criticism really constructive? Not really. You can't make a child better by pointing out what you think is wrong with him or her. Criticism either crushes spirit or elicits defensiveness. Constructive criticism is an interesting combination of words. "Construct" means "to build." "Criticism" means "to tear down" It creates defiance and anger as well.

and one of the regulations indicates that they were always cautious in expressing opinions of one another or of those outside of the organization, and they were not critical of the lives or affairs of the people they were trying to reform or assist. They also adhered strictly to one of their laws: "Judge not—lest ye be judged also.

People who feel quite satisfied, who find no criticism coming from the voice within, are generally failures. They may have been successful up to the present, but failure is written for their futures.

He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. But when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.

Parental criticism is unhelpful. It creates anger and resentment. Even worse, children who are regularly criticized learn to condemn themselves and others. They learn to doubt their own worth and to belittle the value of others. They learn to suspect people and to expect personal doom.