Criticism Quotes

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals.

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.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

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

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold