Quotes About Criticism

The intrusion of outsiders in the day-to-day lives of Africans was the sort of thing I had always criticized.

A woman in the English Department at Fudan University walked with a cane as a result of criticism by Red Guards-she was kicked and beaten for advocating the reading of the Bourgeois feudalist William Shakespeare. But times had changed. This same woman had just been a faculty adviser on a student production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Shanghai Shakespeare Festival in the spring of 1986.

a reviewer should never be afraid to make a fool of himself.

Haters are confused admirers who can't understand why everybody else likes you

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

Try to be good, you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the nice good people as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

Choose what information you listen to. Place a filter over your eyes and ears and only allow in things that won't bring you down, because we have our day-to-day life to do that. Do you think I don't get judged and criticized at work? Well, I do—a lot! But I've decided to hear only the things that encourage me to improve, the things that help me correct my mistakes. Otherwise, I will just pretend I can't hear the other stuff or block it out.

This has been going on through the ages. They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world that escapes criticism. There never was and never will be, nor is there now, the wholly criticized or the wholly approved.

This has been going on through the ages. They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world that escapes criticism. There never was and never will be, nor is there now, the wholly criticized or the wholly approved. Shakyamuni Buddha said that more than twenty-five hundred years ago, but it seems that some things never change.

I don't get all the anger that is thrown at comedians.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

Who can refute a sneer?

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

A man's mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

A tightly woven argument is impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.