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• Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

  Angelo Dundee

  Encouragement, Okay

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• Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

  Paul Arden

  Inspirational, Praise, Criticism And Praise

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• Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him.

  Robert Novak

  Party, Presidential, Levels

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• It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

  Nelson Mandela

  Errors, Leader, Faces

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2017

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• Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don’t hold up well under scrutiny.

  Amanda Marcotte

  Religious, Ideas, Special

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• Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.

  Michael Hyatt

  Medicine, Poison, Dose

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2017

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• In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an intellectual one, not a moral one. If criticism becomes a habit it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyse spiritual force. The only person who can criticise human beings is the Holy Spirit.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Rooms

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.88, Discovery House

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• Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, People, Compliment

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2016

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• It is important to learn how to take criticism seriously, but not personally.

  Hillary Clinton

  "Hillary Clinton advises women to take criticism 'seriously but not personally'" by Jon Swaine, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2014.

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• Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.

  Seth Godin

  Way, Serious, Yeah

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.51, Penguin

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• Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Stupid, Praise, Stills

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• If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Oil, Ideas

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A healthy person can accept criticism.

  Adrian Rogers

  Healthy, Accepting, Persons

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• On your way to the top, you always get some chriticism. Criticism is a great motivation.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Way

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• The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Strong, Hate

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• Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Mind, Mathematician

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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• Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

  Winston Churchill

  Achievement, Easy, Difficult

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• There is no such thing as constructive criticism.

  Dale Carnegie

  Constructive Criticism, Constructive

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• Valid criticism does you a favor.

  Carl Sagan

  Doe, Favors

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.57, Ballantine Books

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• Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.

  Bernard Lewis

  Islamic, World, Levels

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• When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede

  Oswald Chambers

  Block, Order, People

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort.

  Mark Matousek

  Artist, Achievement, Effort

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• Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.

  Jan Chozen Bays

  Heart, Mind, Attention

  Jan Chozen Bays (2011). “How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view.

  N. Katherine Hayles

  Views, Media, Years

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• There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.

  Peter Mullan

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  2003 In a question and answer session at the National Film Theatre, London, 4 Nov.

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