C Quotes
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“Criticism is something we can avoid easily
by saying nothing, doing nothing,
and being nothing.”
“Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.”
Source: The World in Falseface
“Criticism is the art wherewith a critic tries to guess himself into a share of the artist’s fame.”
Source: The House of Satan
“Criticism is the best sign you're onto something.”
“Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.”
Source: History Of English Criticism
“Criticism is the essence of creation.”
“Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.”
“Criticism is the fountainhead of control.”
“Criticism is the price of ambition.”
“Criticism is the seed of divorce, and it develops rebellion in our young.”
“Criticism is the weapon of the shallow, scrutiny is tool of the wise.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.”
Source: The Critic and the Drama
“Criticism is their right, discernment is mine. I filter, I grow, either way, I win.”
“Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.”
“Criticism isn’t the enemy—fear is.”
Source: Fear OFF Work: Psychological Tools To Overcome Workplace Fears
“Criticism loses power the moment you stop needing it to be wrong.”
Source: The Calm Within the Storm: Leading Beyond Ego
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”
“Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The delicate veins of fancy may be traced, and the rich blood that gives bloom and health to the complexion of thought be resolved into its elements. Stop there. The life of the imagination, as of the body, disappears when we pursue it.”
Source: Pleasures of Literature
“Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.”
“Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press”
“Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using resources much faster than they can be replenished. We are producing wastes much faster than nature's sinks can process them. The growth economy will end. The only questions are when its end will come, and whether humanity will be able to survive its demise.”
Source: Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy
“Criticism of my alleged views was widespread and highly successful. I have yet to meet a criticism of my views.”
“Criticism of others. Criticism of 'self'.
Criticism is the lack of compassion, insecurity of 'self' there a self defense mechanism is to put others down to feel superior EVEN IF you disagree with their lifestyle. Let go of your 'Self'.
And if you have acted wrongly according to your own self-standard. Let go of your 'self'.
Recognize when others are criticizing and 'choose' not to conform to the unconscious acts of others. Be aware, let go.”
“Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.”
“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
“Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.”
Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience
“Criticism of the traditional male role is often mistaken for criticism of men themselves. When this happens, men understandably become defensive, push away any discussion of gender, and are unable to hear women's appeals for change. Any gender-role discussion quickly becomes a women's problem, and the issue is repressed by men who feel unjustly accused, and by women who are afraid of men's disapproval and anger.”
Source: Experiences in Relatedness: Groupwork and the Person-Centred Approach
“Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.”
“Criticism on my works is like this: you've worked hard all of your life, you went to Oxford, and you've done this and that, and you're an art critic. Your job is to unravel the "secret" or whatever, and you come across an entity like me. It's going to piss you off. Because there's no great secret, what you see is what you get, and anyone can understand what I'm doing. So, it's almost like I make this critic-person redundant, just by my attitude, and they resent me for that.”
“Criticism only acquires criticism in return. It is only with acceptance, that there is hope for receiving acceptance in return.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.”
“Criticism polishes my mirror.”
“Criticism precedes admiration and – like it or not – goes hand in hand with success. Keep pouring on the success, and sooner or later, the very same people who were putting you down will be admiring you for what you have done.”
“Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside”
“Criticism, rightly practiced, begins and remains a form of introspection.”
Source: Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation
“Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.”
“Criticism should be a casual conversation.”
“Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing. But these days, gossip-columnist training seems to be enough qualification. I suppose an ability to stand on your feet through interminable cocktail parties and swig interminable gins in between devouring masses of fried prawns may just possibly help you to understand and appreciate what a director is getting at, but for the life of me I can't see how.”
“Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.”
Source: Emerson: A Modern Anthology
“Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.”
“Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.”
“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.”
“Criticism that thrives on exaggeration or selective reading ultimately undermines its own credibility.”
“Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a genius," to echo that, but then you're not functioning as a critic or as a writer in any meaningful way. You've got to take the risk of being wrong.”
“Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally in a temporary capacity. Since the critic exists only for introducing and explaining, he must be readily intelligible; he has no special vocabulary: criticism is in no way a science or a system.”
Source: The Culture We Deserve
“Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact that artists weren't able to make a living from their work hasn't detracted from the quality of that work. Charles Ives was the second greatest composer in American history and he worked in insurance his whole life.”
“Criticism, analysis, and insults are tragic expressions of unmet needs.”
“Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.”
Source: Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged)