Criticism Quotes - Page 35

• I think criticism of good work should stop somewhere.

  Sharad Pawar

  Thinking, Good Work, Should

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• A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

  Mo Yan

  Dark, Expression, Use

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• Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Inspirational, Confidence, Determination

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• The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

  Criss Jami

  Running, Devil, Critics

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.28, Criss Jami

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• We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Moving, World

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• One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.

  Criss Jami

  Bullying, People, Rejection

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.131, Criss Jami

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• The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

  David Brock

  Media, Truth Is, Responsible

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• Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.

  Jill Abramson

  Mother, Years, Wife

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• What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

  Seth Godin

  People, Blame

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.46, Penguin

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• In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.

  Richard Holt Hutton

  Real, Book, Giving

  Richard Holt Hutton, Robert H. Tener, Malcolm Woodfield (1989). “A Victorian spectator: uncollected writings of R.H. Hutton”, Bristol Classical Pr

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• The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

  J. D. McClatchy

  Reluctant, Knows

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• Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

  Martin Parr

  Hypocrisy, Tourists, Photograph

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• RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?

  Jose Padilha

  Humanity, Firsts, Brilliant

  "Exclusive: José Padilha Shares His Take on RoboCop" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. November 7, 2011.

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• A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.

  William Arthur Ward

  Encouragement, Kindness, Cups

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• Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

  Lee Hammond

  Inspiring, Art, Joy

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• Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

  David Brin

  Thinking, Errors, Ego

  ActuSF Interview, www.actusf.com. March 2008.

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• You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.

  George MacDonald

  People, Soul, Hearing

  George MacDonald (1878). “The Marquis of Lossie”

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• Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

  Alice Walker

  Done, Painful, Done With Love

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

  Ludwig von Mises

  Atheism, Tasks, Belief

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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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