Criticism Quotes

• The only two TV shows I saw do that, where they don't warm them up and you can really bomb, was Saturday Night Live - and that's why it gets a lot of heat, too. Obviously it gets criticism fairly, too. But a lot of it is because Lorne Michaels lets the audience decide and doesn't force them to laugh.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Laugh
  • Heat
  • TV Shows

• There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

  

  Daniel Pfeiffer
  • Morning
  • Criticism
  • Modern

• The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with criticism.

  

  Michael Oren
  • American
  • Left
  • Jewish

• Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.

  

  Raymond Smullyan
  • People
  • Statements
  • Precise

• You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Reading
  • Choices
  • Eye

• What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?

  

  Norbert Lynton
  • Criticism
  • Expect

• Donald Trump's hair frankly. Sometimes you know you're going to get criticism, but you just have to take .

  

  Terry Gross
  • Sometimes
  • Hair
  • Trump

• Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking.

  

  Michelle Dean
  • Thinking
  • Argument
  • Shame

• You can take a bit of criticism from your manager now and then, but you have to react to it which I have done.

  

  Ross Barkley
  • Criticism
  • Manager
  • React

• People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • People
  • Criticism
  • Fail

• Normally I keep criticism of my players inside but sometimes people need to know what the manager is thinking.

  

  Ronald Koeman
  • Thinking
  • Players
  • Manager

• We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Criticism
  • Cooperation
  • Inequality

• The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the remains of the Long Parliament, may have been an unpractical body, so far as the task of administration in troublous times was concerned. But it seems quite possible that the wealth of contumely and scorn which has been poured upon it was, originally, due quite as much to the fierce anger of vested interests against outspoken criticism, as to any real vagueness or want of practical wisdom in the plans of the House itself.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Wisdom
  • Administration
  • Parliament

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

  

  Reinhard Bonnke
  • Accept
  • Destroyed
  • Applause

• Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."

  

  Steve Martin
  • Criticism
  • Praise
  • Reviews

• Obviously, Jews gain certain advantages by promoting the Holocaust idea. It inspires tremendous financial aid for Israel. It makes organized Jewry almost immune from criticism. Whether the Holocaust is real or not, the Jews clearly have a motive for fostering the idea that it occurred. Not only do they have a motive, but they have the means with the media domination they now hold.

  

  David Duke
  • Real
  • Mean
  • Financial

• It's important to take criticism seriously - not personally.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Criticism

• I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Feelings
  • Failing
  • Scared

• With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Believe
  • Judging
  • Blame

• Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

  

  Susie Orbach
  • Criticism
  • Size
  • Fat

• ... 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

• Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Poetry
  • Novels
  • Experiments

• I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Human
  • Realize
  • Rise

• It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Career
  • Criticism

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