Criticism Quotes - Page 35

• Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Long Ago, Mind, Attention

  "My Day" Column by Eleanor Roosevelt, www2.gwu.edu. January 14, 1942.

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• If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Errors, Ifs, Exposing

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Moving, Perfection

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• Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Knowing, Doubt, Quality

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Hate, Long

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• In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Bridges, Broken, Expectations

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2008). “The Narrative Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC

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• The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and attitudes towards each other. The children's books come from the reverse. They're more supportive, since we're living in a time where we talk more about kids and do less, we talk about balancing the budget and we do it by cutting education.

  Jules Feiffer

  Children, Attitude, Book

  "Feiffer backs into another success" by Dennis Michael, www.cnn.com. January 31, 1996.

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• I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.

  Howard Pyle

  Artist, Giving, Advice

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• Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.

  Howard Pyle

  Iron, Suggestions

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• We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.

  Sidney Jourard

  Lonely, Real, Self

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• If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

  Denis Diderot

  Character, Vices, Deceit

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• Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Atheism, Tasks, Belief

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• The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Writing, Years, Fans

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• My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.

  Anjelica Huston

  Wise, Father, Thinking

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• If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.

  B. B. Warfield

  Inspiration, Discovery, Doctrine

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• My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.

  Roger Corman

  Father, Film Critics, Assistants

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• The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

  Barbara Kruger

  Teaching, Writing, Practice

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• Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

  Imre Lakatos

  Regret, Commitment, Weakness

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• To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.

  Ernst Mayr

  Issues, Heuristics, Unequivocal

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• We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.

  Steven Pressfield

  Strong, Enough Already, Foe

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• A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Self, Mind, Done

  "'Capote' star Hoffman already an Oscar favorite", www.today.com. September 12, 2005.

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• One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with you is to trust your own instincts no matter what people might say about you, no matter what criticism or what negativity might come your way for just being who you are, and just being yourself, it's so important. Tonight is your night.

  Christina Aguilera

  Trust, Being Yourself, Night

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• My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

  Scott McClellan

  Tone, Comparison

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• Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Sincere, Satisfied

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• The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Men, Broken

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