Quotes About Criticism

grandmother used to say, you can always find something wrong with someone else if you really want to.

You do not respond to your critic's statements of wrongdoing with denial, defensiveness, or countermanipulation with criticisms of your own. Instead, you break the manipulative cycle by actively prompting further criticism about yourself or by prompting more information about statements of "wrongdoing" from the critical person in an unemotional, low-key manner.

FOGGING is a very effective skill for desensitizing you to criticism and actually reducing the frequency of criticism from others. It rapidly sets up a psychological distance, boundary lines between you and the person you FOG.

Yo bien conozco esta sociedad mexicana que se traga bueyes y se escandaliza con un mosquito

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)

If you don't like something it's okay to shut the fuck up about it and find something you do like.

If you find yourself in conversation with someone you know and that person brings up someone you both know and before he says another word you mutter, "That guy's a fucking asshole," you might be a little bitter. If you find yourself dismissing universally acclaimed landmark achievements, saying, for example, "The Godfather is an okay movie," you might be bitter.

There's something to be said that if everyone likes something there's gotta be something fucking wrong with it on some level. Unless it's ice cream.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

Also, don't be surprised if you are criticized by others for being too careful regarding early bedtimes and protecting naps.

getting things wrong is part of a music critic's life … That's probably the most crucial advice I could give a young critic—plan on getting a lot of things wrong.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a fucking critic.

La cordialité surfait avec autant de plaisir qu'en prend la taquinerie à déprécier.

Those who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness.

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country would sink giggling into the sea.

To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does not consist in knowing the names or the manner of many painters, but in discerning the excellence of a few.

Holland's mom would get pissed. She owns Mom's Cafe." "She sure doesn't need the competition," Virgil said. "I ate the worst cheeseburger of my life there about five minutes ago." Skinner winced, and said, "I wouldn't wander too far from a toilet. They got three cooks there; we call them Hepatitis A, B, and C. That burger's gonna hit the bottom of the bucket in one piece, if you know what I mean.

the cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked.

That as far as I can tell," Jenkins said, "it's not actually a very good show.

As was Max's method of demo making, all the hooks in the song were worked up to their finished state, but most of the verses were unfinished, often mere vowel sounds. There was no bridge yet, because, as Lunt puts it, "Max would say, 'If you don't like the song by then, fuck you'—in his polite Swedish way, of course.

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.

The only good writer was a dead writer.

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.