Criticism Quotes

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.