Criticism Quotes

• At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.

  

  Daniel B. Wallace
  • Literature
  • Creative
  • Ancient

• I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • School
  • Missing

• My favourite album by her is The Dreaming, and I think she produced that one herself. That got a lot of criticism - but I loved it. It was overloaded with textures, and tones and all manner of things. It’s a record that I still can play to this day, and still hear new things.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • She
  • Criticism

• Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

  

  David Brin
  • Control
  • Criticism
  • Ego

• Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs
  • World
  • Experience
  • Criticism

• Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Meaning
  • Suicide
  • Social Media

• Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Kind
  • Happiness
  • Leaving

• If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Criticism
  • Data
  • Hold Up

• It's easy to jump on one guy when something goes wrong. Hey, that's fine. We deserve the criticism, but track records over time also stand for something.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Jump
  • Wrong
  • Records

• I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?"

  

  Aleksandra Mir
  • Criticism
  • Media
  • Impressed

• Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • May
  • Criticism

• Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • People
  • Long
  • Writing

• No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Opinion

• Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

  

  Reinhard Bonnke
  • Accept
  • Destroyed
  • Applause

• It's a big criticism of Greenaway films that they are far too interested in formalism and not enough interested in notions of emotional content. It's a criticism I can fully understand from a public that has been brought up by Hollywood movies that demand intense emotional rapport.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Up
  • Emotional
  • Criticism

• 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

• ... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Art
  • Imagine
  • Break

• I waited a lot of years and I dealt with a lot of criticism about certain things on my face, and once I turned 21, I still felt that I wanted to change that, so I did.

  

  Farrah Abraham
  • Change
  • Turned
  • I Wanted

• I didn't listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn't let it enter my brain. It affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that. When you are in charge of a top club, where expectations are high you have to deal with that.

  

  Alan Pardew
  • Job
  • Criticism
  • Expectations

• Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Art
  • Study
  • Body

• Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.

  

  Rem Koolhaas
  • Worry
  • Design
  • Process

• The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride.

  

  Beatrice M. Hinkle
  • Children
  • Pride
  • Reaction

• A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

  

  Francis Crick
  • Criticism
  • Values
  • Higher

• 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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