Criticism Quotes - Page 20

• I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Humor, Long

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• I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

  Uri Geller

  Caring, Fame, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Republicans have become the party of red, white and blue rose colored glasses. By drowning out criticism with USA! USA!, they prevent this country from healing itself where it needs healing, and that is the opposite of Country First.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Party, Healing

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• Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."

  Steve Martin

  Three, Praise, Reviews

  The BELIEVER Magazine Interview, www.believermag.com. May, 2005.

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• The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.

  H. L. Mencken

  Light, Forever, Arms

  "Aftermath". Baltimore Evening Sun, September 14, 1925.

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• Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.

  Wes Fesler

  Pills, Painful

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• According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

  Change, Principles, Praise

  "Haydn, A Documentary Study". Book by Chandler Robbins Landon (p. 88), 1981.

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• If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

  Howard Behar

  World, Graphic Design, Praise

  Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein (2007). “It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks”, p.50, Penguin

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• The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

  Ruth Behar

  Anxiety, Ethnography, Prove

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• I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.

  Tim Robbins

  Confidence, Thinking, Actors

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• The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Men, Made, Radical

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.

  Ray Charles

  Spiritual, Religious, Singing

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• Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough.

  Gale Harold

  Drug, Wish, Gone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can take criticisms but not compliments.

  James Taylor

  Compliment, I Can

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside

  Rosanna Arquette

  Art, Hurt, Jobs

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• O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Breakfast, Letters

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1975). “The Flight of the Mind”

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• The majority of people permit relatives, friends,
  and the public at large to so influence them
  that they cannot live their own lives,
  because they fear criticism.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Majority, Influence

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Desire, Stronger

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Think And Grow Rich”, p.103, Lulu.com

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• Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.

  Dale Carnegie

  Flower, Sunshine, Wind

  Dale Carnegie (1982). “How To Win Friends And Influence People”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak. I'm a great fan of J.K. Rowling, but the people - mainly from America's Bible Belt - who complain that Harry Potter promotes Satanism or witchcraft obviously haven't got enough in their lives. Meanwhile, I've been flying under the radar, saying things that are far more subversive than anything poor old Harry has said. My books are about killing God.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, America, People

  "The shed where God died". Interview with Steve Meacham, www.smh.com.au. December 13, 2003.

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• What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism

  Philip Pullman

  Morning, Writing, Years

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• A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

  Alex Kapranos

  Writing, Different, Flavor

  "Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand". Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Careers, Indulge In

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• 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.

  Joseph H. Flom

  Heart, Way, Guides

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• I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

  Jean Rostand

  Judging, Praise, Regimes

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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