“In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.” WayI CanLastsDecisionViewsListeningConflictCriticismReceivingDictatorshipResponding Author:Trevor Nunn
“Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about where it is you want to be doing and want to be going, but also be smart enough that you are essentially listening to criticism, negative feedback, competitive entries.” ThinkingWantEnoughAbleBeliefListeningSmartNegativeCriticismFoundersFeedbackEntryBeing SmartNegative Feedback Author:Reid Hoffman
“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.” PeopleShouldIdeasDifferentSelfMomentsShowsOrderReligiousFailingHonestyListeningConversationIntellectualCriticismShould HaveObviousBurdenArguingCertaintyThriveCriticizeTabooBad IdeasRigorSelf Criticism Author:Sam Harris
“I was writing a film criticism book on Sergio Corbucci, the director who did the original Django. So, I was kind of getting immersed in his world. Towards the end of the Inglourious Basterds press tour I was in Japan. Spaghetti Westerns are really popular there, so I picked up a bunch of soundtracks and spent my day off listening to all these scores. And all of a sudden the opening scene just came to me.” WorldWritingKindBookEndsFilmListeningSceneDirectorsCriticismOriginalsPressesBunchOpeningScoreJapanSoundtracksDays OffSpaghettiReally PopularFilm CriticismDjango Author:Quentin Tarantino
“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.” ShouldMatterCausesAttentionListeningCriticism Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing your craft. That's how you learn how to do it. You don't learn how to write about jazz just from listening to jazz. You learn how to write by reading the great writers and how they worked, the great music critics.” WritingFeelingsReadingListeningCriticismJazzCriticsClassicGreat MusicGreat Writers Author:Gary Giddins