Criticism Quotes

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

Marvin J. Ashton
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of æsthetic, not merely historical, criticism.

T. S. Eliot
- Art
- Alone
- Value

Valid criticism is something that we are open for, and we take it in the spirit in which it is given and try to improve ourselves.

Urjit Patel
- Criticism
- Valid
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
Taking constructive criticism from others is required to get to the next level.

Wendy Starland
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Charles Schwab
- Work
- Effort
- Criticism
As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.

Marv Levy
- Job
- Criticism
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Wole Soyinka
- Criticism
- Absence
- Threat