Criticism Quotes - Page 4

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment.

Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.

Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.

Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.

When working on my choreography I am not always receptive to outside suggestions or opinions. I believe that if you have something in mind in the way of a creation, such as a new dance, a sequence, or an effect, you are certain to come up with inaccurate criticism and damaging results if you go around asking for opinions.

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.