Quotes
Quotes about Criticism
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beingsâand they will always come back.
You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.
Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
