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• In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?

  Norbert Lynton

  People, Want

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• I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.

  Ken Wilber

  Devil, Wish, Grain Of Salt

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• If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

  Allison Mackie

  Weed, Garden, Roots

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• Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Book, Feelings

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.289, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.

  Herbie Hancock

  Looks, Criticize, Values

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• Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Stupidity, Fool

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 390

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• Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

  Phil Donahue

  Children, Appreciate, Parent

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.27

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• People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.

  Tim Ferriss

  People, Needs, Failing

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

  Susan Glaspell

  Water, Judging, Sail

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• Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

  Milan Kundera

  Discovery, Critics

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• We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Sticks, Deserve

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• Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.

  Henry Fuseli

  Character, Envelopes, Assistants

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• Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.

  Eric Maisel

  Wise, Mean, Artist

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.

  A. Y. Jackson

  Men, Drawing, Insanity

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• Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.

  John Dryden

  Judging, Delight, Firsts

  John Dryden (1995). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe”, p.87, Univ of California Press

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• There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.

  Peter Bogdanovich

  Trying, Directors, Want

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• Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.

  Andre Malraux

  Reality, Painting, Conflict

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• Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, People, Perfection

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• An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

  Anton Chekhov

  Artist, Answers, Fields

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Ruts, Drag, Said

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• Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Enough, Professors, Has Beens

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• If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

  Robert Breault

  Artist, Needs, Talent

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• It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

  Ken Livingstone

  Art, People, Want

  "Art attack - mayor and sculptor in war of words over Mandela statue", www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.

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