Quotes About Criticism

However, what lingered in my mind was that one person's dissatisfaction. We tend to notice what's wrong rather than what's right.

it establishes the speaker as someone who sits in judgment.

When we combine observation with evaluation, we decrease the likelihood that others will hear our intended message. Instead, they are apt to hear criticism and thus resist whatever we are saying.

In a world where we're often judged harshly for identifying and revealing our needs, doing so can be very frightening. Women, in particular, are susceptible to criticism. For centuries, the image of the loving woman has been associated with sacrifice and the denial of one's own needs to take care of others. Because women are socialized to view the caretaking of others as their highest duty, they often learn to ignore their own needs.

Seldom are your critics actually disappointed with you. They are usually disappointed with themselves, their circumstances, or God. You are simply a convenient target. Wayne Cordeiro

We're cheaply produced and we suck.

You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts.

being criticized by people you care about is almost always a part of exercising leadership.

The ears of our generation have been made so delicate by the senseless multitude of flatterers that, as soon as we perceive that anything of ours is not approved of, we cry out that we are being bitterly assailed; and when we can repel the truth by no other pretence, we escape by attributing bitterness, impatience, intemperance, to our adversaries.

Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint.

Jerome] is a man quite without either judgment or application.

all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.

It did not please me, either, that the Christians and the princes were driven, urged, and irritated into attacking the Turk and making war on him, before they amended their own ways and lived like true Christians.

Papal decretals are the Devil's excretals.

He does not say: "There dare not be an evil rumor," but rather: "There will be evil rumors. The world will revile him and hold him to be a wicked scoundrel, a heretic, and a deceiver.

Although we cannot all be writers, we all want to be critics.

Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

They are sceptical towards the claims of grand social theories or narratives, whether Marxist, liberal or Christian. There are no universal truths. They were used in the past to legitimate the power of those who know and deny power to those who do not know, and so should be criticised ('deconstructed').

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.