Criticism Quotes

• I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

  

  John Mahoney
  • Done
  • Criticism

• Mindfulness is about observation without criticism; being compassionate with yourself.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Yourself
  • Criticism
  • Mindfulness

• That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mind

• Mere abuse is no criticism.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Criticism
  • Abuse

• We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to enquire. We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Free

• It takes the fuel away from your endless, driving self-criticism. You will eventually be able to see more clearly that some things in life are less important than you had thought, and find it easier to let go of over-caring about them. You will find that the energy that they have been consuming can be used to treat yourself and the world more generously.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.

  

  Ann Veneman
  • Country
  • Single
  • Mad

• This situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigor, attempting to maintain its credit with the public by the suppression of criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is abnormal and undesirable in science.

  

  W. R. Thompson
  • Men
  • Science
  • Criticism

• There's a lot of criticism in this job and what we do. It's in front of everybody and for everybody to have their own opinion about what we do. Don't be in this position if you can't handle that criticism.

  

  Holly Holm
  • Everybody
  • About
  • Handle

• The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by rejecting it and thereby appraising it as beneath all criticism.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Work
  • Art

• When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Together
  • Criticism

• In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, 'Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,' and that we should 'run at criticism.'

  

  John Delaney
  • Career
  • Criticism

• All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • Good
  • Art
  • History

• Could you imagine me and the roasters taking on the GOP field? It would be the greatest show ever. Prove that you can take a joke. Prove that you're a man or woman of the people. Prove that you're not above criticism even in the form of a backhanded compliment.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • People
  • Criticism

• criticizing the Cambridge School of criticism, e.g. John Middleton Murry and Herbert Read, 'Fine Writing,' pp. 306-307

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Writing
  • School
  • Criticism

• The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Criticism

• Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

  

  Alan Jay Lerner
  • Criticism

• I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

  

  Bonnie Jo Campbell
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Husband

• What puzzles me most is your criticism that he showed 'no sense of engagement'. I haven't met the expression before, and feel bound to comment on its totalitarian tang. Engagement not with the truth as the speaker apprehends it, but with the alleged opinion of the majority of listeners.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Engagement

• When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, 'What's he doing hitting the government?'

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Long
  • Criticism

• Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Music
  • Funny
  • Practice

• Confidence and belief in yourself and your vision is absolutely paramount. The fashion industry is tough - be prepared to take advice and criticism along the way, but have unwavering belief in your vision.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Fashion
  • Confidence
  • Vision

• I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Should
  • Poet
  • Diamond

• For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Long
  • Criticism

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