T Quotes
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“The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.”
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.”
“The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.”
Source: Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art
“The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.”
“The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth”
“The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself”
“The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.”
Source: The Writings of Margaret Fuller
“The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.”
Source: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913
“The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.”
Source: The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose
“The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.”
Source: The Letters of E. B. White
“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.”
Source: Language and Silence
“The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.”
“The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.”
Source: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
“The critic should describe, and not prescribe.”
“The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.”
Source: ABC of Reading
“The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.”
Source: Mainly on the Air
“The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.”
Source: Poets of America
“The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.”
Source: Parthian Words
“The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.”
Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
“The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.”
“The critical factor to self-worth lies in our ability to commit to something and follow through with it. If you don’t bet on yourself, nobody will. If you don't value yourself, nobody else will. If you can't help yourself, you won’t be able to help others. Self-worth is life's greatest catalyst.”
“The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.”
Source: White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars
“The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.”
“The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.”
“The critical ingredient is a maverick mind. Focus on trading vehicles, strategies and time horizons that suit your personality. In a nutshell, it all comes down to: Do your own thing (independence); and do the right thing (discipline).”
“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
“The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.”
“The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.”
Source: V is for Vengeance
“The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.”
Source: Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism
“The critical mind is the creative mind.”
“The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice and by design.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice or by design.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.”
“The critical part with meal spacing is that you stabilize your hormones so that you do not have those spikes in insulin that occur when you eat large meals.”
“The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.”
“The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence
beyond the reach of government.”
“The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.”
“The critical principle of feminist theology is the promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distorts the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive.”
“The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199]”
“The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?”
“The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?”
“The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?"”
Source: The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
“The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.”
“The critical race theorists and their allies have turned resentment into a governing principle. But this also a trap: resentment is a tool for obtaining power, not of wielding it successfully.”
Source: America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
“The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.”
“The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.”
“The critical spirit rises up against itself and consumes its form. But instead of coming out of this process greater and purified, it devours itself in a kind of self-cannibalism and takes a morose pleasure in annihilating itself. Hyper-criticism eventuates in self-hatred, leaving behind it only ruins. A new dogma of demolition is born out of the rejection of dogmas. Thus we Euro-Americans are supposed to have only one obligation: endlessly atoning for what we have inflicted on other parts of humanity. How can we fail to see that this leads us to live off self-denunciation while taking a strange pride in being the worst? Self-denigration is all too clearly a form of indirect self-glorification. Evil can come only from us; other people are motivated by sympathy, good will, candor. This is the paternalism of the guilty conscience: seeing ourselves as the kings of infamy is still a way of staying on the crest of history.”
Source: The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism
“The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new”
Source: For Keeps