Criticism Quotes - Page 38

If your are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

The price of leadership is criticism.

I think a lot of women can see themselves in me and a lot of people in general are empowered by seeing someone wear what they want, do what they want, maybe get criticism or get praise, whatever, but still continue to wear and do what they want. I think that a lot of people need that.

That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again.

On your way to the top, you always get some chriticism. Criticism is a great motivation.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism of her on the subject of Communism is naiveté, not participation. And again, being a public figure and our representative at the UN, there was nothing Communist about her, certainly.

This was another subject of criticism. She was being paid, as I recall, during the 1940's, what was then a princely sum, something like a dollar a word. I don't say that for the column, but for articles that she would write and things like that. And she made lots of speeches.

When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing.