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...

To point out nonepistemic motives in another’s view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person’s connection to the world as it is.

You’d challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you’d still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.

I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the most inattentive reader could hardly fail to notice if he scratched the surface...

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile...

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

It is not my methodology to engage too much with critics for many reasons:- I honestly believe that my ego is not worthy of my having to defend it. There are far more important things...

Being overly critical of yourself is like having a relentless, inescapable bully who follows you everywhere you go and abuses you.

People quick to criticize others, but won’t shine the light on themselves. You can’t always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how...

Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.

Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to discriminate against gay and female characters, the unavoidable implication is that they should...

…some people become hypercritical when stressed.Then again, he hadn’t been stressed last week. She giggled, remembering how he’d instructed her on the proper way to fold hand towels. Talk about nitpicky. Perhaps this would be...

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

The truth is it can be a tremendous opportunity. You prove to the organization you can take criticism and you’re able to turn it around. That’s a very positive career statement.

Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.

A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don’t understand, is not a critique.

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties...

When did most of us stop being poets?

Opinions of the masses kill the ‘extra’ in an ‘extraordinary’ idea.

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

Neither the student nor I would mind in the least fair criticism and correction, but no one will permit himself to suffer criticism and correction from another whose knowledge and understanding of the subject is...

what do you want for nothing?” The buyer does not waive his right to express his opinion.”[Thick Skin and Bad Reviews, Blog post, June 26, 2013]

This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play...

You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.

Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what they are and what they do, they will discover suppressed Nietzschean premises. And...

Mega biblion, mega kakon (Big book, big evil)

I don’t want to make people mad. I just… well, how can people get better if you don’t tell them what you honestly think?

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly, that I do. I affirm that such criticisms are written by men who...