Criticism Quotes - Page 52

We don't criticize. Criticism is an enemy. You've got to make loving, positive suggestions.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub-agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the theses, the books of criticism, the reviewers, the book pages- all this vast and proliferating edifice is because of this small, patronized, put-down and underpaid person.'

Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.

I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.

DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.

Our recent pop-music icons, even the most radical ones, like Björk or Caetano Veloso, often have to present themselves as happy and make positive work because they have such a large young fan base to whom they feel responsible. They can't be too negative. Now, criticism is basically a negative act. As you know, critics are neither pop stars nor popular. They are the gripers. But someone has to speak up and say no to this and yes to that.

Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.

[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists.

I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.

During the primaries, if another candidate criticized him, [Donald] Trump would respond with even stronger criticism toward his attacker.

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.

When you are writing the kind of criticism you hope you're writing, everything depends on keeping your calm or your cool. You're trying to tell someone about something that they may know nothing about. They depend on you to read or interpret as best as you can.

There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

The main thing in poetry criticism is that I have all these opinions, and I love having something to do with them. And I think it's important that people try not to be false. The ideal would be that everybody says everything in print. I don't know that it's that I'm not afraid.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.

Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.

The criticism from the other side of [race] debate - and these are not necessarily I think defenders of [Donald] Trump, but they're certainly quick to say, you know, if you're going to live by the race card, you die by the race card.