Quotes about criticism

"All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it."

Turner, Ted on criticism   

"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."

Twain, Mark on criticism   

"A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car."

Tynan, Kenneth on criticism   

"A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening."

Tynan, Kenneth on criticism   

"Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize."

Unknown, Source on criticism   

"He who throws dirt always loses ground."

Unknown, Source on criticism   

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."

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"There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him."

Unknown, Source on criticism
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"Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat"

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"It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us."

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"It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism."

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"Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at."

Unknown, Source on criticism   

"The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route."

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"Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it."

Unknown, Source on criticism   

"All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism."

Unknown, Source on criticism
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"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes."

Unknown, Source on criticism
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

Lebowitz, Fran on criticism   

"Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own."

Unknown, Source on criticism   

"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."

Updike, John on criticism   

"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are."

Walker, Alice on criticism   

"A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin."

Washington, Denzel on criticism   

"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."

West, Rebecca on criticism   

"After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others."

Wharton, Edith on criticism   

"You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe."

Whistler, James Mcneill on criticism   

"The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure."

Wilde, Oscar on criticism   

"That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography."

Wilde, Oscar on criticism   

"Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us."

Wilde, Oscar on criticism   

"On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure."

Wilde, Oscar on criticism   

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

Wilde, Oscar on criticism
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"Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water."

Wilder, Thornton on criticism   

"A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't."

Williams, Bern on criticism   

"It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on criticism   

"Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants."

Winchell, Walter on criticism
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"Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores."

Wolfe, Thomas on criticism   

"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Woolf, Virginia on criticism   

"There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic."

Ziglar, Zig on criticism
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"Criticism always follows worthwhile action. The opposite is seldom true."

Wong, Torley on criticism   

"Criticism always follows worthwhile action. The opposite is seldom true."

Torley on criticism   

"“Never defend yourself of words from a fool unless you are willing to become his/her equal.” "

Crawford, Gene on criticism   

"Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you."

Ziglar, Zig on criticism
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