372 quotes found
“Critiquing a doer isn’t doing.”
“(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front ...”
“The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.”
“Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it...”
“Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions of others, the processes of thinking are impre...”
“Who is the wrong person to criticise?You”
“A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.”
“It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.”
“Said the pot to die kettle "Get away blackface."”
“As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair so an unsuccessful author turns critic.”
“What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!”
“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.”
