If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. ... If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive. ... If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident. ... If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.
You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.
Anti-Semitism does not signify opposition to Semitism. There is no such thing. It is an expression we Jews use effectively as a smear word used to brand as a bigot, like you guys, anyone who brings criticism against Jews. We use it against hate-mongers.
Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms!
Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.
The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.
I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.
Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.
I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.
Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.
The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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