Quotes About Criticism

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

Men generally don't do any self-examining unless they get criticized by a woman first.

Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling.

The Four Horsemen that destroy relationships. Criticism. Contempt. Defensiveness. Stonewalling.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Having appointed ourselves judge, jury and executioner, and having declared someone else "wrong," we feel superior to that person.

The philosopher has a duty,... in reading scientific texts, to combine semantic tolerance with semantic criticism—to accept in practice what he denounces as a matter of principle, namely, the confusions that result from illegitimately converting correlations into identifications.

No matter how much success you have, there will always be people who hate themselves so much that they'll gladly project that hate onto you.

And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a degree that many of today's public artists do away with the product as an issue, and make public debate the contents of their art. In doing so they are not redefining art so much as redefining public space. The debate itself has become the public space.

They crucified Jesus not because they disliked what he said, but because they couldn't take it

Judging others and being quick to criticize just pollutes your life. Learning how to open your hand is the best thing you can possibly learn.

Plotinus had been born in Alexandria at the beginning of the third century A.D. Like many brilliant critics, he thought he understood what he had read better than the author himself.

Heldmann (1990) writes that most people respond to criticism with behavior they learned in childhood. She calls this behavior "The Four Don'ts": defend, deny, counterattack, and withdraw.

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.

Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

Obviously he'd seen my own failings in the pages, though I'd only meant to show him how clever my dialogue was, and how gaspingly well I'd described the sea.

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

Finally a woman confesses! Confess what? What women never allowed themselves to confess. What men always criticized on them: they only obey the blood and everything is sex on them, even the spirit.

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