Negative Criticism Quotes

• The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

  Denis Waitley

  Criticism, Trying, Power Of Positive Thinking

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• Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Depression, Attitude

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  The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Integrity, Yoga

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• A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Jealousy, Judging, Giving

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.199, Verso

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• Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

  Anton Chekhov

  Creative, Criticism, Negative

  Anton Chekhov's letter to his brother A.P. Chekhov, May 10, 1886.

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• Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

  Samuel Johnson

  Criticism, Negative, Ends

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.325, Canongate Books

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• Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

  Peter Clewes

  Artist, Criticism, Hurtful

  "Architect Peter Clewes on the Château Laurier expansion". Interview with Shannon Proudfoot, www.macleans.ca. September 21, 2016.

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• There's people that like you and there's people that don't like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove.

  Cormega

  People, Criticism, Negative

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.

  Renata Adler

  Nice, Criticism, Negative

  Interview with Alice Gregory, www.believermag.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Hurt, Criticism, Negative

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• I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

  Terry McMillan

  Criticism, Negative, Bother

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