Quotes About Criticism

Be bold enough to appreciate. Be strong enough not to criticize.

Appreciation always enhances performance. Criticism destroys the enthusiasm.

No matter what you do and how you do it, you will always be criticized. Do it anyway.

Never expect to be accepted without criticism. Never forget to appreciate.

To teach someone something, appreciate even the slightest improvements and avoid criticism.

I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.

You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.

When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place.

Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.

A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

Os políticos nunca se atrevem a criticar o povo, que muitas vezes é vil e cobarde e insensato, nunca o censuram nem lhe repreendem a conduta, antes o elogiam invariavelmente, quando pouco costuma ter de elogiável, seja o de que sítio for.

produced. In any event, criticism and cavilling at minorities does not help. It is difficult to think of long-term policies when the situation is an ever-changing one. The only real long-term policy we can have is to consolidate India by making all the minorities in the

Cautious people are often criticized by those who later become victims.

Not only does reality resist those who still criticize it, but it also abandons those who defend it. Maybe it is a way for reality to get its revenge from those who claim to believe in it for the sole purpose of eventually transforming it: sending back its supporters to their own desires.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like — then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.