Criticism Quotes
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I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.
Maurice Strong
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Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
Carl Sagan
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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
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I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!
Dascha Polanco
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I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.
Charles Saatchi
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Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.
Martha Beck
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It's useful for activists just to be out there to keep you mindful and not get complacent, even if ultimately you think some of their criticism is misguided.
Barack Obama
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The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the storyline that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step towards transforming your experience of the world.
Oprah Winfrey
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I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.
CeeLo Green
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What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.
Maury Yeston
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There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.
Elvira Nabiullina
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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
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Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature.
T. C. Boyle
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Taking constructive criticism from others is required to get to the next level.
Wendy Starland
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
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It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.
Donatella Versace
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Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.
Pablo Antonio Cuadra
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Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
Bryan Robson
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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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I'm tired of being hunted all over. I can't go anywhere without criticism.
Bela Karolyi
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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
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To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
Anna Seward
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Until you look forward to criticism, your Work’s not done.
Byron Katie