Quotes About Criticism

Being pretentious is rarely harmful to anyone. Accusing others of it is. You can use the word "pretentious" as a weapon with which to bludgeon other people's creative efforts, but in shutting them down the accusation will shatter in your hand and out will bleed your own insecurities, prejudices, and unquestioned assumptions.

My father criticizes me all the time. My grades went up from Cs to Bs in two courses and down in another, and all he could talk about was the course I had done worse in. Why would a father say something like that to a kid?" We sometimes have to wait weeks or months for that brief window of emotional disclosure when a boy suddenly shows us his sadness and bewilderment, which had previously been masked by silence or anger.

a warning to young entrepreneurs: take money from a venture capitalist, and you'll end up working for some smug, sarcastic, know-it-all prick like this guy, who will constantly tell you that you're not working hard enough while he spends his days getting into arguments on Twitter.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

The Economist dijo que se trataba de un giro «xenófobo».

He is not a leader, he is just a Liberal (on Josh Frydenberg)

People can get upset at the fact that someone resigned. I'm much more focused on the fact that people are harming themselves and, sometimes, taking their own lives, because of bigotry and prejudice. (in response to criticism for his views on ex-Essendon FC CEO Andrew Thorburn's links to a controversial church, saying the issues are "much much bigger" than a footy club)

You were right, everybody hates my new car. Becky said it was a goth dorkmobile.

Los braintrust no son divertidos. Son situaciones en las que se dice a los directores que los personajes carecen de alma, que la línea argumental es confusa y que los chistes son malos. Pero también sirven para hacer mejores las películas. «El braintrust es, con mucha diferencia, lo más importante que hacemos —afirma el presidente de Pixar, Ed Catmull—. Se basa en la total sinceridad de las críticas.»

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

Ultimately, a richer language is essential to the skill of constructive criticism.

In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.

Old-school viewers remain adamant that 'The Real World' has deteriorated, as if the original enterprise were some pristine experiment that got sullied as the conditions in the lab got sloppier.

We often come across certain directors who mention some of their own flops as their favourites. They will blame the viewers for not realising its merits. I think that is plain hypocrisy.

By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

One's political views and/or religious beliefs should not exist in an impenetrable and inviolable bubble wherein they are protected from criticism or scrutiny.

Novelists, it seems to me, are the very last people who should be asked to comment on the news of the day, and sooner or later, when they have been pilloried for their views, most of them recognise this.

I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.

In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.