Criticism Quotes - Page 45

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.

Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.

The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay.

I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least a writer of imaginative work... I do try to make my critical studies imaginative and try to write them in ways that are more like literature than philosophy, but I have disappointed myself because I am still so wedded to criticism.

There was a criticism that stuck with me a little bit, which is that somebody said that I was jumping on a bandwagon by talking about sexuality. Obviously that's not a massive takedown, but I found that personally quite offensive because it's something that I've been living with and dealing with my whole life, and just because I decided to speak about it now is not me jumping on a bandwagon; it's a reflection of how I feel within this industry and how I've grown in the past five years.

This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response of anyone--other people's reactions, their emotions, their criticisms, their demands--but somehow they don't reciprocate. Maybe they can't. Maybe they lack the gift, if it is one.

If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact – based indeed on solid journalistic work.

The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews.

When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.

Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on the contrary, maintain that they ought to be praised in their lifetime if they merit it; but jealousy and calumny, roused against their virtue or their talent, labour to degrade them if any one ventures to bear testimony to them. It is unjust criticism that they should fear to hazard, not sincere praise.

Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.