Criticism Quotes

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

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.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

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.

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.

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.

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 love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

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.

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

I was not used to criticism.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

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.