Quotes About Criticism

Whether the idea was taken from the Spanish Inquisition whose methods it so resembled or from the example of the Russian secret police, whether it sprang from Himmler's own zealotry, it was a deliberate policy designed to suppress by fear all actual or potential opposition or even criticism of the regime.

ADOLESCENTES EMOCIONALES Tienden a estar siempre a la defensiva. Son amenazados y alarmados por las críticas. Mantienen una puntuación de lo que dan para después pedir algo a cambio. Tratan mal los conflictos, generalmente culpan, apaciguan, van con una tercera persona, hacen mala cara o ignoran el tema por completo. Se preocupan por ellos mismos. Tienen dificultad para escuchar verdaderamente el dolor, las desilusiones o necesidades de otra persona. Son críticos y sentenciosos.

Our self-image soars with a compliment and is devastated by a criticism.

Os colarinhos-brancos, os moderadores e críticos cresceram em quase toda parte à custa dos criativos e deixam-se festejar como os verdadeiros criadores.

Mick Jagger does it and, well, of course he does—he's Mick. Phil Collins does it and what an arsehole.

Never resolve with violence what can be addressed with cutting commentary.

Everybody has said, 'I want push-back from you if you see something I don't,' " said Rosenthal. That made a difference. So did offering thanks for constructive criticism.

people realized that excessive politeness was hindering the critical examination of views, so they made special efforts to assure others that criticism was welcome. "Everybody has said, 'I want push-back from you if you see something I don't,' " said Rosenthal. That made a difference. So did offering thanks for constructive criticism. Gradually, the dancing around diminished.

Though pressure for constitutional change has tended to come from the left, various works critical of the contemporary polity have appeared in recent years from commentators on the right, a number adopting a polemical approach

The third criticism of the electoral system is that it encourages adversarial politics in Britain, with consequent negative

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

scoffing cometh not of wisdom...

There is a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us and it ill behoves any of us to criticize the rest of us.

For most of my life i have been adored by fools and hated by people of good sense, and they all make up stories about me in which I am either a saint or a whore. But I am above these judgments, I am a Queen.

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

prophétique de la grande critique d'auteur et le ronron sacerdotal de la tradition scolaire ? Mais

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.

If censorship reigns there cannot be sincere flattery, and only small men are afraid of small writings.

I always have to brace myself when I visit my parents. My mom often greets me with a slew of nonconstructive criticisms: 'Jimmy, why is your face so fat? Your clothes look homeless and your long hair makes you look like a girl.' After 30 years of this, my self-image is now a fat homeless lesbian.

He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?

When I first went to visit different agencies in New York, a lot of them were like, 'You have to lose a lot of weight.'

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture.

Our freedom to criticize the government - as openly and brutally as we want to - serves as a vital check against unbridled government power and control.