One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.

Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John’s first American album, ‘Elton John,’ was that the production was too grandiose. The melodies were superb, and lyrics frequently very good, and the performances flawless.

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

After all, how many of our todays and of our tomorrows do we want to give our yesterdays? It is one thing to be victimized by another. It is quite another to victimize ourselves because...

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

The mayor deserves criticism — not for what he knew, but for what he did not know. While he focused his attention … on the day-to-day work of governing, he should have focused more on...

A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

Never Criticize, Condemn or Insult Anybody.Who are we to Judge ?

Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can’t be told that I’m wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn’t to do with receiving criticism and responding...

Politics has always interested me. Despite the bad fallout, the criticism that politicians face, I still think it’s a good thing to get involved.

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.

There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D.H. Lawrence had known that. You needed love, but not the kind of love most people used and were used up by. Old D.H....

Perhaps vaguely aware that his movie so completely lacks gravitas, Moore concludes with a sonorous reading of some words from George Orwell. The words are taken from 1984 and consist of a third-person analysis of...

The devil’s happy when the critics run you off.

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

Critique my better work only, because I want to get better from my best, not better from my worst.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

This has been done by masters of the trade and Garcia had taken in every stock situation with amazing powers of retention, but he had not put things together right and had used extraordinary discernment...

In the West, of course, God has been dead for some time. What remains is religion as social belief, which is at best a moral code and at worst social etiquette.

I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic.

Short men are happy, for they can pass easily through the door. Tall men are happy, for they can stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, short men are angry, for they cannot...

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded

If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli’s, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view....

This is the same song, different verse from the Democrats running for governor. They have immense amounts of criticism but absolutely no plan to address the challenge.

There is a kind of counter-criticism that seeks to expand the work of art, by connecting it, opening up its meanings, inviting in the possibilities. A great work of criticism can liberate a work of...

At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a totally extraneous matter in critical articles: they were pure invective, a vulgar battle...

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

Some judge of authors’ names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

When I left her office, I felt like she’d gut-punched me, brushed me off, slapped me back and forth, gave me a cool compress to put on my cheeks, cold-cocked me with a stiff uppercut...

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many...

Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.6. You may also be twelve.7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible...

For obvious reasons, the relationship between novelists, the reviewing establishment and critics in general is chronically, and often acutely, edgy. A kind of low-intensity warfare prevails, with outbreaks of savagery. It is partly an ownership...

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost...

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

La sanción del crítico no es el sentido de la obra, sino el sentido de lo que dice sobre ella.

#1. Spend more time considering evidences of grace in other Christians than you do pondering their sins and weaknesses. You, as a Christian, probably have a much greater ability to see weakness in other believers...

Praises make the wicked deaf(they can’t tolerate criticism) while people who praise become successful because of their humility.

I repeat here what you will find in my first chapter, that the only thing that signifies to you in a book is what it means to you, and if your opinion is at variance...

Unreasonable self-criticism represents a form of self-hatred and fear.

Never talk to waiters like that,” Kit said.”Can I help it,” he said, “if I only went one year to finishing school?””It isn’t manners,” she said like a sensible schoolteacher quietly disciplining a small boy,...

Instead of avoiding criticisms, make criticisms work for you