Criticism Quotes

• I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.

  

  Cecil Beaton
  • Criticism
  • Worst
  • Ear

• (The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ... without inflowing thoughts ...is without attachment ...endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience ...(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body ...has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed!

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Thoughts
  • Patience
  • Anger

• When I had the job of police commissioner, 20 years ago, I was more sensitive, more cognizant of complaints and concerned about public opinion. I've learned to do what I think is the right thing. That lessens the impact of criticism. You get used to a pressurized environment and expect it every day.

  

  Raymond Kelly
  • Environment
  • Opinion
  • Police

• I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • War
  • Red
  • Army

• The way I feel about Crunk Feminists. Here you have a bunch of bloggers who are not even quoting any feminists' works who are telling me what I can do better when I've been doing this as my life's work while y'all still in college! What are you talking about? And their criticism was of the idea that we should approach people like Rick Ross and Lil' Wayne with love when they have lyrics that we don't like, as opposed to approaching them with hate. That's their issue: How dare I say I approach Rick Ross with love!

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Hate
  • College

• The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Problem
  • Democracy
  • Healthy

• There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Society
  • Science

• Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Criticism

• Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Failure
  • Battle
  • Responsible

• Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Good
  • Criticism
  • Theater

• In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Women
  • Ridicule

• The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Religious
  • Attitude
  • Intelligent

• I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Believe
  • Criticism
  • Comedian

• A lot of coaching is about results and if you don't get the right results, you're going to get criticism, but if all things are going well then you can enjoy yourself.

  

  Warren Gatland
  • Criticism
  • Results
  • Coaching

• There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Criticism
  • Praise
  • Floods

• It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. And there's so many expectations involved, too. You're going in to see the latest Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick film, you really have high hopes, and you can't help but find that it's not exactly what you had in your head going in. Until you can watch it again, you can't accept the work for what it intends to be. It takes at least a second viewing.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Writing
  • Expectations
  • Accepting

• Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Criticism
  • Face

• Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Approach
  • Climate
  • Dissent

• Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Criticism
  • Sensitive

• I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often get criticized, as I try to exercise what I believe to be right. However, if you mind such criticism, I think you can't protect people's lives.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Trying

• One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Judgment

• Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

  

  Phil Donahue
  • Child
  • Criticism
  • Approval

• People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Criticism
  • Confident

• Some believers, as though from a drinking bout, go so far as to oppose themselves and alter the original text of the gospel three or four or several times over, and change its character to enable them to deny difficulties in the face of criticism. (Against Celsus 2, 27)

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Character
  • Change
  • Believers

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