372 quotes found
“Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.”
“I only accept and pay attention to feedback from people who are also in the arena. If you're occasionally getting your butt kicked as you respond, and if you're also figuring out how to stay open t...”
“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.”
“Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.”
“Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.”
“Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?”
“These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers faults. Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demo...”
“We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable...”
“Why do we put up with it? Do we like to be criticized? No, no scientist enjoys it. Every scientist feels a proprietary affection for his or her ideas and findings. Even so, you dont reply to critic...”
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
“...some people become hypercritical when stressed.Then again, he hadn't been stressed last week. She giggled, remembering how he'd instructed her on the proper way to fold hand towels. Talk about n...”
“If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.”
“CRITICISM'' is a first step of a Success”
“The writers in the newspapers could sounds smart because they did not have the responsibilities of decision, and they could sound bold by enunciating positions which they were not required to imple...”
“Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all.”
“Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.”
“And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.”
“Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.”
“He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.”
“When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, Are they right? And if they are, you need to adapt what theyre doing. If theyre not right, if you really have conviction that th...”
