Quotes About Criticism

True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about.

Criticism often hides incompetence & increases vanity. Therefore critics are always more vain that the achievers they criticize.

I always remember Ted Sturgeon's statement when he joined us here to write for Star Trek. Some friend of his said, 'Ted, how can you possibly write for television? Don't you know that ninety percent of television is crap?' Ted looked back at him and said, 'Ninety percent of everything is crap.

He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Old college friends post links to reviews of it on my Facebook wall and say things like, "Sounds like something you'd like," or "This reminded me of you." I think, Am I supposed to like this? I don't, in fact, like it. I dislike it. Where is my dislike button? Where do I click to scream?

Das Problem war nur, dass Karin zu wenig über die Leute wusste, die sie in ihren Büchern verurteilen wollte.

Her description of her method of work has been quoted over and over again by her critics, and I suppose it is no more ironic that this serious bit of self-depreciation should be taken au pied de la lettre than that her comic ones were.

Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body.

Why should one bother to criticize what is inevitable or challenge what is omnipotent?

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11 as an excuse to render suspect what has always been an American right. An active, brave, outspoken (and heard ) citizenry is essential to a healthy democracy.

How might you feel if everything you tried was a little beyond your ability to succeed—and you were criticized for the efforts you made?

harsh criticism, punishment, or shaming may also damage a child's brain and ability to trust you.

The Italians arrived with a strong musical tradition; they also had their faith. But food was their cultural touchstone, their way of defying the critics, of tolerating the slurs and all of the other injustices. It was their way of being Italian.

There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America.

Down on me, down on me,Looks like everybody in this whole round worldIs down on me.

LED ZEPPELIN HATED Rolling Stone, and me in particular.

A?ADAR, TREBUIE S?-I PERMITEM TOTUL? În nici un caz: am transforma un sclav care se plictise?te într-un tiran plictisit. Interzicând, oricum c?lim voin?a m?car în direc?ia autocontrolului ?i renun??rii, îi dezvolt?m creativitatea în activit??i pe un teren îngust, îndemânarea de a se sustrage controlului , îi construim sim?ul critic.

Whites cannot, by law, set up all-white schools. As it is, they are criticized if they take their children out of integrated public schools and send them to private schools that are largely white. None of these schools teaches a deliberate racial consciousness the way many black private schools do. Blacks, on the other hand, are increasingly demanding that publicly funded schools teach black racialism—with only a murmur of criticism from whites.

Kritiikin terve verenkierto: kurkut poikki.