Quotes About Criticism

As well as being highly critical of everything Nora did, and everything Nora wanted and everything Nora believed, unless it was related to swimming, Nora had also felt that simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime.

I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.

The only candidate to really escape Trump's wrath has been Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and that's because Cruz has spent the entire political season nuzzling Trump's ankles, praising the Donald like a lovesick cellmate. The Texas senator, whose rhetorical schtick is big doses of Tea Party crazy (his best line was that Obama wanted to bring "expanded Medicaid" to ISIS)

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski should be herded into a rocket and shot into space for their brown-nosing of Trump A

The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing on themselves.

Among the many ecstatic notices, Robert Christgau, the self-appointed 'dean of American rock critics', put it best, in a review that would still be being quoted when he left the Village Voice twenty-six years later: 'Mick Jagger should fold up his penis and go home.

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

From the time of his passing, there was a movement to promote Paul's canonization. While criticized in some quarters for his response to the crises after the council and vilified by dissenting theologians for Humanæ Vitæ, Paul was nevertheless loved and respected by those who knew him for his intellect, his gentle courtesy, his humility, and above all, his personal holiness.

Buckley called him "Mr. Evil," "a dangerous man," and a "great phony." Buckley deplored the "uncouthness that seems to account for his general popularity.

Note, It is common for those that are indulgent to their own sin to be severe against the sins of others.

None talk more absurdly than murmurers.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

Be not desirous to know what people say; if they speak well of thee, it will feed thy pride, if ill, it will stir up thy passion. See that thou approve thyself to God and thine own conscience, and then heed not what men say of thee; it is easier to pass by twenty affronts than to avenge one. When any harm is done to us, examine whether we have not done as bad to others.

Ati?a, following N?g?rjuna's commentator Candrak?rti, held that although our everyday language adequately describes apparent reality, philosophical discourse nevertheless has a necessary role: not system-building but the criticism of our presuppositions, dismantling them until we arrive at the profound realization of emptiness and the opening that this entails.

Celui qui est doué d'une véritable humilité n'est guère préoccupé par son image. Celui qui possède des qualités indiscutables et une confiance en soi justifiée aura peu de chances d'être touché par les critiques.

Les médiocres me tolère que d'être entourés de flateurs qui leur cachent à eux-même leur médiocrité.

Courage consists in being reliant on oneself and others to the extent that, irrespective of differences in physical and social circumstance, all manifest in their behaviour and their relationships that very same spark which makes us recognise them, which makes us crave their assent or their criticism, the spark which means we share a common fate.

I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.

IT IS NOT QUITE FAIR to say that all Republicans have become Trump toadies. Only most of them.

If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line." [ Paris Review , interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989]

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

we should turn our most unsparing criticism toward ourselves. None is so perfect that there is no room for improvement.