C Quotes
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“Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself.”
“Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.”
“Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.”
“Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.”
“Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.”
“Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.”
“Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.”
“Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.”
“Criticism is a life without risk.”
“Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.”
“Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.”
“Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.”
Source: Selected poetry and prose
“Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature upon few, and the labour of learning those sciences which may, by mere labour, be obtained, is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert some judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of critic.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius
“Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough.”
“Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.”
“Criticism is always going to be painful. You live through it. I'll live through it now. It's even harder when you're younger. You don't have the maturity. You're still developing. If you get damaged while you're developing, it's a psychological battle after that. Today, if I get the criticism, I'm not bothered...if I wear the wrong thing, I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Maybe when I was younger, I might have been more affected by that.”
“Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing
things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.”
“Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.”
“Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.”
“Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.”
“criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.”
“Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.”
“Criticism is easy, art is difficult.”
“Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.”
Source: Best of Dale Carnegie Vol-I
“Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.”
“Criticism is great when it’s based on concrete arguments, but useless when it’s done out of jealousy.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Criticism is hard for me but people find hard to believe because they think I'm very tough, very strident, that I tell everybody where to get off, and how. But I've actually got a really thin skin. I don't know. It's quite pathetic. So, yeah, it's hard for me to take criticism. But I also kind of have this sense of humor on overdrive, so I don't take any of it seriously. So that sort of saves me, the fact that I think it's just all kind of funny.”
“Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.”
“Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!”
“Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.”
Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.”
Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.”
“Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.”
“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you.”
Source: The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
“Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.”
“Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.”
“Criticism is not construction, it is observation.”
Source: The Potiphar Papers
“Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that most truly discerns the countenance that looks out from the pages of the gospel.”
Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations
“Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life
“Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.”
“Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!”
“Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?”
“Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.”
“Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.”
“CRITICISM is part of LEARNING and GROWTH. It means that you are taking INITIATIVES to learn something new and grow over from your current state. If you are not getting criticised, it means you are not taking enough RISK to learn something new and to grow.”
“Criticism is prejudice made plausible.”
“Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Browning
“Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.”