Criticism Quotes - Page 14

• A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

  Helen Rowland

  Relationship, Heart, Men

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• I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Emotional, Littles

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

  Kingsley Amis

  Self, Employment, Firsts

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• Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Critics, Misconception

  "Aveux et anathemes (Anathemas and Admirations)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

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• Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

  Joseph Conrad

  Flower, Garden, Expression

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1153, e-artnow

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• The most destructive criticism is indifference.

  E. W. Howe

  Envy, Gossip, Indifference

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• Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Literature, Values

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.3, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

  Wole Soyinka

  Inspirational, Absence, Threat

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• It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

  Donatella Versace

  Would Be, Easy, Criticize

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dare to risk public criticism.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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• To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

  Henry James

  Appreciate, Intellectual, Fine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  May, Publicity, Knows

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.

  Ted Turner

  Motivational, Life Lesson, People

  "Ted Turner Speaks: Insights from the World's Greatest Maverick".

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• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Powerful, Writing

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• Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Women, Argument

  Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

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• Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.305, University of Georgia Press

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• They condemn what they do not understand.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Latin, Understanding, Critics

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• Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.

  James Luther Adams

  James Luther Adams (1976). “On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Tree, Together, Caterpillars

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• We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

  Jose Narosky

  Unjust Criticism, Accepting, Applause

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• In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Men, Effort, World

  Charles M. Schwab (1919*). “Andrew Carnegie: His Methods with His Men”

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• What I created got abominated.

  Ralph H. Baer

  Creating, Creation, Abomination

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• It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Inspirational, Media, Critical Thinking

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• Remember that all is opinion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Opinion, Remember

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (15), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Country, Patriotic, Usa

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