Quotes About Criticism

They're being really judgmental.

I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir?

No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.

No, I am quite content with you, Bertie. By the way, I do dislike that name Bertie. I think I shall call you Harold. Yes, I am perfectly satisfied with you. You have many faults, of course. I shall be pointing some of them out when I am at leisure.

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

To say that the farmer laughed would be to express the matter feebly. That his young opponent, who had been irritating him unspeakably since the beginning of the game with advice and criticism, should have done exactly what he had cautioned him, the farmer, against a moment before, struck him as being the finest example of poetic justice he had ever heard of, and he signalized his appreciation of the same by nearly dying of apoplexy.

They have undoubtedly come to a bad end by this time. If bears were sent to attend to the children who criticised Elijah, your little friends were in line for a troupe of tigers. But there were some of a finer fibre? There were a few who didn't call you Carrots?

on visiting the USSR after Stalin regime installed) All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?

If you criticize others judgmentally, rather than simply commenting on their behavior impartially, that shows that you have their faults to work on in yourself. By criticizing others, moreover, you increase those faults in yourself. What you condemn in others, you will have to experience, someday, yourself. That is the karmic law. In that way, people are taught compassion." —Paramhansa Yogananda

It is not easy to criticize others accurately and kindly until you know that you can first criticize yourself perfectly. When you can clearly picture the faults of others and look at those faults with a sympathetic attitude, as if they were your own, then you are correct in your criticism.

Judge ye not others; judge yourself. If you love to talk loudly about the faults of others, then satisfy that lust by loudly talking about your own secret faults, and see how you like it even for a minute. If you cannot stand one minute's publicity about your own faults, then you must not rejoice in exposing others.

You know your the best when people you don't know hate you.

When people you don't even know hate you, that's when you know you're the best.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

It both surprised and angered me that {they} had reached a consensus of agreement against me. The way I looked at the world, enemies criticized and friends affirmed.

Christ must do a lot of puking when he reflects upon the good works done in his name. Anyway

Sav svoj novac je trošila na kupovinu knjiga, a sve vrijeme na njihovo ?itanje. Sve su bile ispisane kritikama, odgovorima na marginama, ponekad su me?u njih bile umetnute ?itave stranice komentara. Šunjala se kroz stolje?a pisanja, ostavljaju?i svoj znak kud god bi išla.

And she wondered, as she had often wondered before, if Richard liked her only because she was more sympathetic with his ambitions than anyone else he happened to know now, and because he felt her criticism was a help to him.

Schopenhauer had said it years ago: "Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

cuando algo nos desagrada, es mucho más fácil criticar y censurar que tratar de comprender el punto de vista del prójimo. Con frecuencia es más fácil encontrar defectos

Comprendamos que las críticas son como palomas mensajeras. Siempre vuelven al nido.

Criticism is futile because it puts people on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

A crítica é fútil porque coloca as pessoas na defensiva e faz com que lutem para se justificar. A crítica é perigosa, porque fere o orgulho precioso das pessoas, atinge a sua auto-estima e desperta ressentimentos.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.