Quotes on Criticism

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Author: Joseph Addison

I believe in criticism.

Author: Paul Anka

Dare to risk public criticism.

Author: Mary Ash

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Author: Mary Ash

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

Author: Steve Ballmer

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.

Author: Cecil Beaton

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

Author: Halle Berry

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Author: Harold Bloom

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

Author: Charles Buxton

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

Author: Charles Buxton

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Author: Emile Cioran

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Author: Joseph Conrad

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Author: Malcolm Cowley

I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism.

Author: Graham Coxon

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

Author: E. Forster

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

Author: E. Forster

You are never really prepared for criticism.

Author: Barry Gibb

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.

Author: Johnny Greenwood

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Author: Alfred Griswold

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

Author: Scott Hamilton

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

Author: Renny Harlin

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

Author: Walter Hill

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Author: Sidney Hook

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

Author: Edgar Howe

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Author: Elbert Hubbard

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Author: Kurt Huber

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

Author: Edmund Husserl

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Author: Robert Hutchins

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Author: Billy Joel

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

Author: Lenny Kravitz

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Author: Alan Lerner

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Author: H. Mencken

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Author: Henry Miller

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

Author: Ann Patchett

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Author: Octavio Paz

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Author: Norman Peale

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

Author: Dennis Potter

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

Author: Philip Pullman

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

Author: Sima Qian

For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

Author: Dan Rather

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

Author: Ellen Richards

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.

Author: Bryan Robson

Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .

Author: Diana Ross

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Author: Jean Rostand

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

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.

Author: Paul Schrader

To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!

Author: Anne Seward

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

Author: Paul Simon

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

Author: Josef Skvorecky

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

Author: Stephen Spender

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Author: Laurence Sterne

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

Author: Anne Stevenson

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Author: Henry Thoreau

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

Author: Wim Wenders

I don't take criticism lying down.

Author: William Westmoreland

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.

Author: George Williams

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Author: John Wooden

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

Author: Victoria Woodhull

You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.

Author: Tina Yothers

Success is not defined by acceptance, but by perseverance in the face of criticism.

Author: Ingrid Conley

In the garden of success, constructive criticism is the sunlight that makes the flowers bloom.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Successful people focus on helping others succeed while unsuccessful people spend their time criticizing others' success

Author: John Smith