Best criticism & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.”

Real Self Understanding Loses Protect Criticism Lonely Crowds Protection Rejection Family And Friends Misunderstood Steep Real Self Camouflage

Author:Sidney Jourard

“A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.”

Mind Self Done Moments Awareness Criticism Self Awareness Unbearable Self Criticism

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“It's never the same relationship. I see my job as filling in the blanks. Whatever it is that the artist lacks in the process of making a record, I'm supposed to fill that in. And sometimes it's a lot of stuff and I have to hector them about working on the material and that sort of thing. Sometimes you have an artist that's really fairly self-sufficient; they just need another ear to offer some objective criticism, but otherwise pretty much know what they're doing. It varies a lot.”

Knows Needs Self Sometimes Jobs Artist Stuff Process Records Materials Offers Criticism Ears Objectives Sufficient Filling Vary Self Sufficient Hector Filling In

Author:Todd Rundgren

“Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism”

Humans Self Criticism Intellect Self Criticism

Book:Stray Reflections: The Private Notebook of Muhammad Iqbal

Source: Stray Reflections: The Private Notebook of Muhammad Iqbal

“As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.”

“Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.”

Self Criticism Session Self Criticism

Book:Sixty stories

Source: Sixty stories

“I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.”

People Thinking Mean Self Hate Results Consciousness Vision Criticism I Hate Bravery Orthodox Usual Self Consciousness Matthew Fussy

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“Everything that happens to you is self-created. Whenever you're responding to any situation, whether it's a sip of coffee, or a traffic jam, or a love note, or criticism from a boss, or rainy weather, you're in fact responding to a signal that you generated within yourself.”

Self Facts Happens Situation Criticism Notes Coffee Weather Boss Traffic Signals Jam Responding Rainy Traffic Jam Rainy Weather

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?”

Ideas Self Brain Criticism Good Ideas Surgery Objectivity Self Criticism Brain Surgery

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.”

Way Should Self Difficult Practice Meditation Criticism Wrong Way Self Criticism

Author:Moby

“Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”

Trying Years Has Beens Self Helping Happens Remember Moving Understanding Self Help Criticism Patterns Gentle Criticize Locks Remember You Remembers You Trying To Change Approving

Author:Louise Hay

“Another reason for the increased self-centeredness of an adolescent is her susceptibility to humiliation. This brazen, defiant creature is also something tender, raw, thin-skinned, poignantly vulnerable. Her entire sense of personal worth can be shattered by a frown. An innocuous clarification of facts can be heard as a monumental criticism.”

Self Reason Facts Heard Creatures Criticism Vulnerable Adolescence Humiliation Shattered Brazen Self Centeredness Centeredness Susceptibility Clarification Personal Worth

Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.”

Self Evil Movement Roots Criticism Breaths Self Criticism

Book:The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

Source: The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”

“Die to self: die to criticism, die to praise.”

Self Dies Criticism Praise

Author:Lee Roberson

“Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.”

Needs Self Opportunity Criticism Discourse Adversaries Self Criticism

Author:Mason Cooley

“Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.”

Self Practice Criticism Method Remains Traditional Immune Accounting Scientific Method Self Criticism

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.”

Way Feels Real Self Sometimes America Style Achievement Intellectual Built Concerned Criticism Appearance Ideology Concrete Sophisticated Superficial Bricks Academia Mortar Trivia

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Parents still have primary responsibility for raising children, but they must have the power to do so in ways consistent with their children's needs and their own values.... We must address ourselves less to the criticism and reform of parents themselves than to the criticism and reform of the institutions that sap their self-esteem and power.”

Way Needs Children Stills Self Values Parent Responsibility Self Esteem Criticism Institutions Esteem Reform Primaries Addresses Consistent Raising Children Sap

Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.”

Self Self Esteem Identity Criticism Threat Esteem

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.”

People Self Enough Film Directors Criticism Skins Critical Profession Thick Lots Of Friends Film Directors

Author:George Lucas

“Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.”

Self Intellectual Criticism Posts Nonsense Serving Bullshit Literary Criticism Self Serving Bunk

Author:John Fante

“It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism.”

“Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.”

Self Black Capacity Criticism Slavery Slave West Prisoner Initiative Tribes Exceptional Rivals Abolition Self Criticism African Tribes Abolishing Slavery

Author:Ibn Warraq

“The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter of what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom.”

Source: Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays

“Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.”

Soul Self Political Secret Democracy Weapons Criticism Confession Candor Self Criticism

Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.”

Men Self Criticism Critics Ill Stamps

Book:Notes of Thought

Source: Notes of Thought

“All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty-and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally.”

“The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.”

Self Stupid Criticism Hatred Vocabulary Self Hatred Self Criticism

Book:In Writing

Source: In Writing

“I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile.”

People Feels Should Kind Book Self Problem Form Social Fans Criticism Filled Calm Respectful Literary Criticism Social Problems Be Respectful Book Review

Author:Dave Eggers

“I seldom get self-righteous, and even when I am being impolite (almost always on purpose - there's an art to insulting people, too), I tend to try to not be too serious about it. And most of the time it means that I can take criticism constructively, and sometimes just change my opinion on the fly and laugh at myself over having turned on a dime.”

People Trying Mean Art I Can Self Sometimes Purpose Opinion Laughing Serious Criticism Righteous Insulting Dimes Self Righteous

Author:Linus Torvalds

“As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy light and avoids any possibility of self-criticism. I am one of those unlucky skeptics who never overlook the dark side of even the happiest experience.”

Self Enough Light Sides Dark Views Possibility Happenings Criticism Unfortunate Temperament Skeptic Dark Side Unlucky Rosy Self Criticism Posse

Author:Savielly Tartakower

“We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.”

“In the Communist Party, we address problems very openly and sometimes very vocally, and we point out abuses. This is a good thing. We exercise self-criticism once a year. Although 80 percent of the members of the National Assembly are also members of the Communist Party, this does not prevent them from sharply criticizing the administrative and governmental system.”

Years Doe Self Sometimes Problem Party Exercise Members Percent Criticism Abuse Good Things Addresses Criticize Communist Assembly Administrative Communist Party Self Criticism

Author:Nguyen Minh Triet

“When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.”

Self Accepting Doubt Failing Criticism Self-doubt

Author:Jennifer Lee

“Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.”

Should Kind Self States Enough Character Bigs Able United United States Criticism Senate Outsiders Dishes Self Criticism Appraisal

Author:Margaret Chase Smith

“It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.”

Self Levels Weakness Criticism Maturity Self Criticism

Book:Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.”

Ifs Way Self Helping Moving Powerful Cutting Dangerous Kings Higher Reflection Criticism Accountability Repentance Righteousness Usual Luther Dangerous Things Self Criticism

Author:Jim Wallis

“An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.”

Ifs Littles Self Artist Levels Opinion Higher Judgment Criticism Accomplish Disaster Self Criticism

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the biblical faith and the comparative inadequacy of its rivals, and to show the invalidity of the criticisms that are brought against it. This he seeks to do, not from any motive of intellectual self-justification, but for the glory of God and His gospel.”

Men Self Done Shows Intellectual Glory Criticism Arguing Motive Justification Biblical Rivals Glory Of God Inadequacy Adequacy Self Justification Biblical Faith

Book:Fundamentalism

Source: Fundamentalism

“The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.”

Needs Self Cases Evidence Gains Criticism Self Criticism

Book:A rationalist encyclopaedia: a book of reference on religion, philosophy, ethics, and science

Source: A rationalist encyclopaedia: a book of reference on religion, philosophy, ethics, and science

“Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.”

Ifs Wells Self Belief Aspect Criticism Method Property Errors Abandon Questioning Incapable Prevailing Scientific Method Correcting Self Questioning

Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“A final word on self-criticism: Do not beat up on yourself. Even if you think you know your flaws, there is no need to advertise them. Most people won't have noticed.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Self Beats Criticism Finals Flaws You Think You Know Self Criticism Final Words

Book:Zen Guitar

Source: Zen Guitar

“I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little sheepish, about its ex cathedra pronouncements.”

Thinking Littles Doe Self Theory Conscious Criticism Function Add Exes Self Conscious Methodology

Author:Paul Fry

“Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories; they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast "informal" economy .”

Source: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition

“There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.”

Knows Believe Kind Doe Self Reason Suffering Order Belief Wish Know How Failing Criticism Faults Excuse Vanity Self Criticism Overboard

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.”

I Can Self States Criticism Vulnerable Vulnerability Self Criticism

Author:Damian Kulash

“I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness meditation. It varies from person to person of course, but for many, their practice of mindfulness will bring along old habits of self-judgment and ruthless criticism, so it is not actually mindfulness.”

People Persons Self Courses Numbers Practice Kindness Meditation Habit Benefits Judgment Mindfulness Criticism Ruthless Vary Loving Kindness Old Habits Meditation Mindfulness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to give me instructions, and I am not the type of man who would take them. That's not to say that I don't approve of what is happening in Cuba, but he would never send me a letter telling me what to do or not to do.”

Men Giving Self Political Type Happenings Criticism Letters Give Me Instruction Cuba Sense Of Self Castro Self Criticism

Author:Salvador Allende

“The psychological peer pressure that the left has employed - and deployed, actually - on young people has been overwhelmingly successful. It has created droves and droves of people that vote against what they know is right, vote against their own self-interest, in exchange for feeling good about themselves and also being immune from criticism.”

People Knows Has Beens Self Feelings Young Left Interest Successful Criticism Vote Pressure Feel Good Psychological Peers Employed Self Interest Immune Peer Pressure

Author:Rush Limbaugh

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