We expect criticism. That’s just fine.

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

Splendid is the flower.” Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. And some are pretty enough, And some are poor indeed;...

Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don’t be your own worst enemy!

Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don’t consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here’s a few clues that you’re a cyber bully.(1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character.(2)...

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

The trouble with poetry is it’s often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

Every garden looks beautiful in May.’ Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she’s young.

I’ve always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you to take up the cudgels in its defence. If you are deeply convinced of its truth, you will...

The literary text seems like “a fortified medieval town –foreigners and outsiders are repelled, or allowed in only after rigorous checks, but within all is bustling life; exchange, mutual interdependence and influence are the rule.

I think that would have been a fair criticism that would have had more weight if it came a month ago.

To engage with criticism, is on some level, a validation of that which otherwise would go unnoticed.

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.

Critique by creating.

Denn wir sind Neinsager. Aber wir sagen nicht nein aus Verzweiflung. Unser Nein ist Protest.

And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.

The Scholars”Bald heads forgetful of their sins,Old, learned, respectable bald headsEdit and annotate the linesThat young men, tossing on their beds,Rhymed out in love’s despairTo flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.They’ll cough in the ink to the...

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

Art is personal, criticism shouldn’t be.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world–they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.

How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!

A rapidez e a concisão do estilo agradam porque apresentam à alma uma turba de idéias simult neas, ou cuja sucessão é tão rápida que parecem simult neas, e fazem a alma ondular numa tal...

The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy … a razor-wire...

In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.

To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.

There is no person on earth so bad that he does not have something about him that is praiseworthy. Why is it, then, that we leave the good out of sight and feast our eyes...

It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]

In light of the criticism of the TSE both domestically and abroad, and the importance of the TSE to our capital markets, I hope the exchange returns to normal trading hours soon.

You don’t create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a ‘not good’ critic.

I had people saying ‘it’s all in your head’. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as to perceive more clearly that unfathomable, mysterious core that is the...

Ah, but sir,’ said Lascelles, ‘it is precisely by passing judgments upon other people’s work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest...

EQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.

Where people are not present, talking about them is either lie or ridiculous.

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Do not fear criticism, accept it as an inspiration for boldness and action

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly,...

Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty

The writers in the newspapers could sounds smart because they did not have the responsibilities of decision, and they could sound bold by enunciating positions which they were not required to implement.

When people give one star ratings, they seem to be trying to make a point. In my opinion, one star ratings don’t make a constructive point. They are just unfair put downs to creativity.

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.

He?s facing a potentially divisive primary, and most of the criticism he?s taking is from Democrats. He?s sided with Bush as much as he can. Iraq is enough. And he?s got to go out of...

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

Criticize me if you can, but that won’t stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority of the world’s humans either speak and something primitive or speak...