Criticism Quotes

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.