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“What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.”

“Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.”

Way Years Sometimes Mother Wife Heard Criticism Males Complaining Worried Colleagues Reservations

Author:Jill Abramson

“One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with you is to trust your own instincts no matter what people might say about you, no matter what criticism or what negativity might come your way for just being who you are, and just being yourself, it's so important. Tonight is your night.”

People Way Important Sometimes Matter Hard Might Night Share Trust Criticism No Matter What Who You Are Instinct Being Yourself Tonight Negativity Just Being Hard Way

Author:Christina Aguilera

“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

“I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.”

Sometimes Facts Results Type Criticism Mere Hunches

Book:My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

“On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.”

Men Mind Firsts Has Beens Sometimes Whole Sides Virtue Flower Concerned Criticism Gold Praise Critics Affair Singers Destructive Weed Gardener Dross

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“It's very advantageous to be sensitive with your work - and, yet, being sensitive, in reality, when criticized, it can annihilate you. It can destroy you. And with the internet there sometimes is a lot of harm, which I find must be very difficult for youngsters coming on - it can be very harsh; the criticism. And, sometimes, it can be a little cruel - which makes it hard for young performers coming on.”

Littles Sometimes Hard Reality Young Difficult Internet Criticism Harm Sensitive Performers Harsh Youngsters

Author:Michael Crawford

“Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.”

People Ifs Feels Children Sometimes Parent Criticism Criticize

Book:You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25

Source: You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25

“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.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“In my work I have chosen the positive approach. I never think of myself as protesting against something, but rather as witnessing for harmonious living. Those who witness for, present solutions. Those who witness against, usually do not - they dwell on what is wrong, resorting to judgment and criticism and sometimes even name-calling. Naturally, the negative approach has a detrimental effect on the person who uses it, while the positive approach has a good effect”

Thinking Persons Sometimes Use Names Effects Calling Judgment Approach Solutions Negative Criticism Chosen Witness Harmonious Detrimental Name Calling

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.”

Sometimes Criticism Praise Slander

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it. They're just not getting what I'm doing, and that's fine.”

Different Sometimes Fine Criticism Receiving Constructive Frequency Mindless

Author:Michael Ian Black

“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.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“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.”

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Author:Nguyen Minh Triet

“I think it's become such a part of younger people's daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it's OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have.”

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Author:Ted Leo

“Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.”

Humans Art Sometimes Dangerous Human Nature Position Judging Criticism Competition Good Things Threat Be Good Peers Away From You Jealously Rancor Judging You

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.”

Sometimes Hurt Worry Effects Criticism My Family

Author:David Beckham

“The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.”

Heart Sometimes Lying Sadness Hard Work My Heart Stones Criticism Harder Work Harder Spurs

Book:Chocolate Box Girls: Summer's Dream

Source: Chocolate Box Girls: Summer's Dream

“Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.”

People Wells Mean Children Sometimes Age Teach Discipline Behavior Findings Criticism Encouragement Faults Confused Fault Finding

Author:Susan W. Tanner

“I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.”

Has Beens Sometimes Honor Criticism Praise Bothered Puzzling

Author:Billy Joel

“I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.”

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Author:Elton John

“Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.”

People Way Trying Different Sometimes Hard Feelings Hurt Criticism Different Ways

Author:John Britt Daniel

“Donald Trump's hair frankly. Sometimes you know you're going to get criticism, but you just have to take .”

Knows Sometimes Hair Trump Criticism

Author:Terry Gross

“Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.”

Feels Sometimes Social Media Criticism Social Media Vehicle Sniping

Author:George Saunders

“Sometimes people will find things that are wrong. Sometimes they will even find an approach that you took wrong. If you think you took the right approach, then you just absorb the criticism, but you don't change your mind.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Sometimes Approach Criticism Don't Change Changing Your Mind

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact that songwriting is so difficult and music criticism has become so content driven means that sometimes critics can go for the easy descriptors rather than an in-depth analysis.”

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Author:Marissa Nadler

“When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.”

Sometimes Character Criticism

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“When I teach criticism, the first thing I say, and this sometimes pisses off younger - I mean, students, is that, opinions are the least part of criticism. We've all had the experience of going with a friend to a movie or a concert and you leave the theater and one of you loved it and one of you hated it, and that doesn't mean that one of you is an idiot. That's the way things work.”

Mean Sometimes Opinion Teach Students Criticism Idiot Hated

Author:Gary Giddins

“I read reviews every time. I read them all. Sometimes they can be very constructive, sometimes not, but it's always interesting to see the opinion of others on what you are doing. Sometimes I am very furious, but I will never say to a journalist, "Please don't come back to the next show." Never. Because I think that's a very stupid attitude. I am very happy when I see the results of the company and when I see people wearing my clothes or my accessories. I think this is the best answer to criticism.”

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Author:Frida Giannini

“Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.”

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Author:Ann Romney

“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

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Author:A. A. Milne

“In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.”

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.”

Country Sometimes Reason Speak Freedom Criticism Grateful Patriotism Protest Patriot Disobedience Great Hope

Author:Johnny Depp

“I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you. It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction... Would you ever put [America's plus-size sweetheart] in the headline for a male star?”

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Author:Melissa McCarthy

“The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.”

Mean Sometimes Kids Jobs Turns Winning Process Objects Truth Is Clothes Losing Singing Criticism Competition Winner Tunes Loser Frustrated Good Job

Author:Simon Cowell

“Sometimes discipline, which means "to teach," is confused with criticism.”

Mean Sometimes Teach Discipline Criticism Confused Fault Finding

Author:Susan W. Tanner

“Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.”

Sometimes Criticism Divorce Agents Rebellion Forerunners

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Emotions in this country right now are running very high. Sometimes that emotion is translated into inspiration, sometimes into criticism. We've heard some of that tonight. But it's still part of the American way of life.”

Way Stills Country Sometimes Inspiration Running Emotion Heard Right Now Criticism Tonight American Way Of Life

Author:Matt Lauer

“Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.”

Sometimes Criticism Constructive

Author:Chris Martin

“People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don’t normally do, but I think that’s just a natural thing for artists. It’s like, "Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this."”

People Thinking Want Trying Littles Sometimes Artist Natural Criticism Okay Extras Natural Things

Author:Kristen Wiig

“You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.”

Knows Stills Sometimes Loses Challenges Hell Honor Criticism

Author:Mira Grant

“Hate is just a form of criticism. You can never truly grow as a person until you’ve taken everything the world can throw at you. Sometimes you just have to let it hit you and move on”

World Persons Sometimes Moving Form Hate Grows Taken Criticism

Author:John O'Callaghan

“My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it”

Want Sometimes Leader Criticism Rage Fierce Severe

Author:Zhu Rongji

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