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What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

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• On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
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  • Political

• 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
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• I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Film
  • Years
  • Criticism

• Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Freedom
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  • 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

• 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
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  • Seriously

• The most destructive criticism is indifference.

  

  E. W. Howe
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  • Indifference

• The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

  

  Randall Jarrell
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  • Trust

• What’s true is that everyone is uncomfortable with expressing anger and being critical. Anger and criticism generates rejection. And everyone hates rejection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • True
  • Criticism
  • Rejection

• Listening in response to criticism mandates a shift in our internal psyche that marks perhaps the most important single evolutionary shift humans can make.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • World
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• I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.

  

  Charlie Cox
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• There's always loose points that people bring up, which is great, and I think that's why you read criticism is because you want to see what worked and what didn't work, and certainly you have to filter it because there's a lot of people who just love to troll.

  

  Joe Russo
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Art
  • Criticism

• Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Society
  • Criticism

• No one understands my accent. I'm constantly going to auditions and being told they don't like how I talk. You have to live with criticism, and I don't take it personally.

  

  Lauren Socha
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• I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
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• Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and trust our feet. They will take us as far as our minds will go... -- Tahar ben Jelloun

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Mind
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• My strength is in my ability to be versatile.

  

  Wendy Starland
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• Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Mind
  • Memories

• I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Law
  • Should
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• What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

  

  Northrop Frye
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