Criticism Quotes

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.

Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart.

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

I was not used to criticism.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.