Criticize Quotes - Page 12

• Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Judging, Done

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• Conflicts, even of long standing duration, can be resolved if we can just keep the flow of communication going in which people come out of their heads and stop criticizing and analyzing each other, and instead get in touch with their needs, and hear the needs of others, and realize the interdependence that we all have in relation to each other. We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Winning, Long

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• I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over art. Commerce has become the most important thing in the film industry. Hollywood is an industry, it's not an art form, therefore they have to address the bottom line. But in a way it's sad when you get a remake, isn't it?

  Ridley Scott

  Art, Important, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

  Seungsahn

  True Friend, Thieves, Praise

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• Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander in my discursive thoughts. I could have cut through sooner. Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Notebook, Running, Cutting

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

  Alan Kay

  Iphone, Eight, World

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• If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.

  Max Frisch

  Writing, Lines, Firsts

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• I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

  John Stossel

  Simple, Competition, Regulation

  "John Stossel Scorched by The New York Times". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2009.

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• Will Rogers…used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a
  yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I come out with
  a newspaper and pretend I’m an intellectual making fun of the yokels
  running the government.

  Mort Sahl

  Running, Fun, Government

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• My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Giving, Understanding, Trying

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• I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

  Peter Medawar

  Argument, Propose

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

  Al Franken

  Love, Mean, Years

  "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Book by Al Franken, 2003.

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• Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Culture, Degradation

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• There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little ones? I say it's not whether we should be ashamed of our fathers and mothers of the Old Confederacy. I say it's a question of whether they should be ashamed of us.

  Calvin Johnson

  Mother, Father, House

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• Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing.

  Michael Ruse

  Religious, Atheist, Philosophy

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• When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.

  Christian D. Larson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Personality

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.296, Penguin

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• Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself.

  Harold Medina

  Trust, Mistake, Empathy

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• If you are doing what you love then you're doing what is right. Desire and passion resonate with your body, mind and soul. When you're passionate you don't question, judge, criticize, second-guess, or doubt. It's that passion that will fuel the fire to overcome challenges.

  Layne Beachley

  Passion, Doing What You Love, Fire

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• It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

  Jacque Fresco

  Offering, Alternatives, Enough

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• It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

  Henri Poincare

  Math, Intuition, Logic

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.746, Modern Library

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• You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

  Ira Glass

  Something Better

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• In this modern day and age, we have instant coffee, instant tea - instant disbelief. That's the reason we will never become anything. It is because we will never believe in ourselves. We will always listen to the mass majority. If everybody's making fun of you and criticizing you, then you know you're on the right track. 'Cause most people ain't got it.

  Glenn Turner

  Fun, Coffee, Believe

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• I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.

  Johnny Damon

  Biblical, Games, People

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• Whenever you feel a negative emotion be alone in a room and just sit down with it and feel. Don't judge it, criticize it, intellectualize it, explain it away. Allow yourself to feel the pain. It's okay. Accompany it - breathe into it - and after a while, you'll feel the anger or fear or sadness lose it's urgency and power. Allow God to tenderly embrace you in your pain. And then, at the right time, you can let go.

  Bo Sanchez

  Letting Go, Pain, Sadness

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• In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Government, America, China

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