Top Criticism Quotes Collection

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Image of Rose Tremain
Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".
- Rose Tremain
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Image of Elon Musk
Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold
- Elon Musk
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Image of David Thorne
I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.
- David Thorne
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Image of Paul Ricoeur
Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.
- Paul Ricoeur
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Image of Henry Miller
We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
- Henry Miller
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Image of Robert Benchley
I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.
- Robert Benchley
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Image of James E. Faust
Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.
- James E. Faust
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Image of Henry Allen Ironside
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.
- Henry Allen Ironside
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Image of Diane Sawyer
A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.
- Diane Sawyer
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Image of Marilyn vos Savant
Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.
- Marilyn vos Savant
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Image of James E. Talmage
No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.
- James E. Talmage
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Image of Georgia O'Keeffe
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
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Image of L. Frank Baum
As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.
- L. Frank Baum
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Image of Theodore Roosevelt
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Image of Renzo Piano
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
- Renzo Piano
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Image of Constance Rourke
In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.
- Constance Rourke
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Image of Frank A. Clark
We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.
- Frank A. Clark
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Image of Paul de Man
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
- Paul de Man
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Image of Alan Barth
Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
- Alan Barth
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Image of Sidney Nolan
When the critics come around it's always too late.
- Sidney Nolan
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Image of Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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Image of William Greenough Thayer Shedd
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.
- William Greenough Thayer Shedd
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Image of Tex Winter
Neither criticism nor praise should be highly regarded.
- Tex Winter
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Image of Nathan Eldon Tanner
Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.
- Nathan Eldon Tanner
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Image of Claude Adrien Helvetius
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Image of George Saintsbury
Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.
- George Saintsbury
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Image of James M. Cain
Time is the only critic.
- James M. Cain
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Image of John Maynard Smith
It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.
- John Maynard Smith
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Image of Lucullus
It is difficult to heal the wound of reproach.
- Lucullus
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Image of Roland de Vaux
Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
- Roland de Vaux
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Image of Robert J. Flaherty
Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.
- Robert J. Flaherty
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Image of Edmund Morris
There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.
- Edmund Morris
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Image of John Lahr
A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.
- John Lahr
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Image of Peter Bogdanovich
There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.
- Peter Bogdanovich
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Image of Hari Kunzru
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
- Hari Kunzru
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Image of Kumail Nanjiani
I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I'm acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don't always agree with it, but I really need it.
- Kumail Nanjiani
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Image of James Luther Adams
Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.
- James Luther Adams
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Image of Howard Behar
If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?
- Howard Behar
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Image of Donald O. Clifton
Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.
- Donald O. Clifton
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Image of Anne Stevenson
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
- Anne Stevenson
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Image of Francis Crick
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
- Francis Crick
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Image of Jimmy Haslam
I will accept comments and criticism about change.
- Jimmy Haslam
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Image of Barbara Brennan
The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.
- Barbara Brennan
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Image of Noel Coward
Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
- Noel Coward
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Image of Andrew Wommack
If criticism could kill you, I'd be dead.
- Andrew Wommack
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Image of Wayne Thiebaud
We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.
- Wayne Thiebaud
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Image of Roger Ebert
Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
- Roger Ebert
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Image of Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I am saying yes to criticism, but no to insults.
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Image of Mark Richt
I didn't know I got criticism.
- Mark Richt
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Image of Win Butler
Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.
- Win Butler
Collection: Criticism