Criticism Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• 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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• The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Love Is, Degrees, Guarantees

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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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• My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.

  Tom Baker

  Believe, Acceptance, Self

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• England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk. I don't think criticism is a valid one because, in defense of Hollywood, we have censorship problems England doesn't have. I'm not speaking of the license to do sexy stuff. I'm speaking of the license to present adult ideas and viewpoints, which we lack and which means in turn that many of our pictures lack intelligent content.

  John Garfield

  Sexy, Mean, Intelligent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Secret, Finding Yourself, Stories

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• In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not escaped tile keen eye of criticism; and this city, being the holy of holies to all Hindus, has not failed to attract its full share of censure.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Eye, Cities, Intellectual

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2404, Manonmani Publishers

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• In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.

  Oswald Chambers

  Love, Spiritual, Attitude

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• Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who could be described as neither), it would become the responsibility of all of us to change the conditions of reception so that the public might begin to distinguish between criticism of Israel and a hatred of Jews.

  Judith Butler

  Change, Responsibility, Israel

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• Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

  Walter Lippmann

  Intelligent, Government

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• Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between.

  Judith Crist

  Real, Mean, Glimpse

  Judith Crist (1968). “The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde”

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• In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Military, Japan, Years

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• Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Path, Peers, Popularity

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• One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to practice, and I wanted them to get a certain amount of pleasure out of basketball. It's a game. It should be fun. So I always tried to counterbalance any criticism in practice with a bit of praise. I wanted my players to feel that the worst punishment I could give them was to deny them the privilege of practicing. If they did not want to practice, I did not want them there.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Fun, Boys

  "They Call Me Coach".

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• One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for them when a flaw in style is pointed out ... I know that when things start going wrong, for one, I get the coach to keep his eye on me to see what I'm suddenly doing wrong. I can't see it or I wouldn't be doing it in the first place.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Eye, Player

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• After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in taking on the work of Doris Salcedo, exploring the philosophical and aesthetic stakes of this committed political art and the relation between beauty, violence, and memory. A tour de force.

  Jonathan Culler

  Art, Memories, Philosophical

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• What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, What If, Phrases

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Body, Systematic

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

  Karl Marx

  Criticism Of Religion

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• The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

  Clifford Geertz

  Research, Persuasive, Anthropology

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