Criticism Quotes - Page 29

Most of the criticism I get is that I am too positive and too hopeful... in my words, I don't beat people down enough.

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

We are Wikipedians. This means that we should be: kind, thoughtful, passionate about getting it right, open, tolerant of different viewpoints, open to criticism, bold about changing our policies and also cautious about changing our policies. We are not vindictive, childish, and we don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

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

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.

Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.

In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

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.

We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.

What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?