Criticism Quotes - Page 28

• I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Mother, Husband, Gun

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• If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

  Tim Ferriss

  Data, Want, Scrutiny

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• Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

  Dada Vaswani

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Suffering

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• The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

  Barbara Brennan

  Kind, Guidance, Form

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• The naysayers, they don't mean a thing.

  Venus Williams

  Mean, Naysayers, Critics

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• The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.

  Bill Parcells

  Hurt, Player, Opinion

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• We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

  Pauline Kael

  Perception, Saws, Judgment

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• Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.

  Antonya Nelson

  Wall, Simple, Vocabulary

  Antonya Nelson (1999). “Nobody's Girl: A Novel”, Scribner

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• Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

  Michael Schudson

  Ignorance, Agency, Advertising

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.45, Routledge

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• At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.

  Daniel B. Wallace

  Ancient Literature, Creative, Conjecture

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• Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Attention, Pay

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• 'American Sniper' is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.

  Matt Taibbi

  War, Mind, President

  "'American Sniper' Is Almost Too Dumb to Criticize" by Matt Taibi, www.rollingstone.com. January 21, 2015.

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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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• It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.

  George Jean Nathan

  Memories, Philosophy, Self Esteem

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• Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

  Amy Adams

  Skins, Faces, Embrace

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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