Yasmin Mogahed Quotes

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.

Yasmin Mogahed

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Think
  • Praise
  • Salt

• There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Man
  • Praise
  • Over

• Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Movie
  • You
  • Criticism

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Criticism
  • Target

• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Praise

• The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Cannot
  • Deceived

• As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Mind
  • Enjoy
  • Criticism

• All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.

  

  Baltasar Garzon
  • Done
  • Job
  • Doing

• Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Work
  • Different
  • Why

• I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Lies
  • Criticism

• There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Work
  • Men
  • Criticism

• If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Challenge
  • Effort
  • Moment

• Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Literature

• I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Why
  • Perfect

• Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Job
  • Criticism
  • Seriously

• Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Passion
  • Criticism
  • Poems

• I will accept comments and criticism about change.

  

  Jimmy Haslam
  • Criticism

• Until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Children
  • Control
  • Responsibility

• I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity, Guantnamo Bay and all the rest of it. But the poems at the start of District and Circle Anahorish 1944, The Aerodromearent particularly aimed as criticism. On the contrary, there's a recognition of the big contribution to world order made in Europe during World War II.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • World
  • War
  • Lying

• Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • Bleeding
  • Optional

• When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Success
  • Married
  • Decisions

• The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Criticism
  • Praise
  • Deceived