372 quotes found
“Imitation is criticism.”
“Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.”
“Do not criticize others unless you are willing to accept criticism.”
“I don't criticise the free choice of others, and I ask others do the same to me”
“Will you read this? I think maybe it sucks. Or maybe it's awesome. It's probably awesome. Tell me it's awesome, okay? Unless it sucks." Nick”
“It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.”
“I believe more youths stay out of leadership positions because of the fear of indequacy and criticisms.”
“When I left her office, I felt like she'd gut-punched me, brushed me off, slapped me back and forth, gave me a cool compress to put on my cheeks, cold-cocked me with a stiff uppercut to the jaw, pi...”
“Neither the student nor I would mind in the least fair criticism and correction, but no one will permit himself to suffer criticism and correction from another whose knowledge and understanding of ...”
“It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.”
“Never talk to waiters like that," Kit said."Can I help it," he said, "if I only went one year to finishing school?""It isn't manners," she said like a sensible schoolteacher quietly disciplining a ...”
“I repeat here what you will find in my first chapter, that the only thing that signifies to you in a book is what it means to you, and if your opinion is at variance with that of everyone else in t...”
“One Accuracy about criticism is that you don't ask for it but it's given to you. How you deal with it? Says a lot about you. People may criticize you for many reasons. You can't let it brake you or...”
“He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government.”
“Whenever a journalist wrote an article about him that was critical in nature... he would invite them to a meal and at first they assumed they were in trouble for being critical of him. But they soo...”
“Relax and breathe. The trouble with imaginative people is that we're good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn. Bad criticism is no...”
“If you want to criticize someone, do not compare him with an imaginary creature but yourself.”
“Where people are not present, talking about them is either lie or ridiculous.”
“Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young.”
“You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism.”
