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I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism. — Dean Smith

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration. — Albert Einstein

You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me. — Seanan McGuire

You take the constructive criticism, because without the fans you would have no show. — Reagan Gomez-Preston

Criticism was heavy these days, and that one scrap of praise was like water in the desert. — Kiera Cass

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds. — Yuja Wang

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism. — Clarence Darrow

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place. — Criss Jami

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins. — Criss Jami

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance. — Pankaj Mishra

I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The critic who doesn't accept a criticism, is a hypocrite — Valgame

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country. — Robert F. Kennedy

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde

Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates. — Orrin Woodward

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there's no criticism. That means you're too safe — Kanye West

People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule. — Leslie Feinberg

To those who value words of affirmation, criticism feels like a knife in the heart. — Paul E. White

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The devil's happy when the critics run you off. — Criss Jami

I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise. — Noel Coward

A person never rise by pulling others down. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character. — Denis Waitley

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag. — Criss Jami

I got a lot of criticism for going back on 'Survivor' to play 'Survivor: All Stars.' — Jenna Morasca

All criticism is a form of autobiography — Oscar Wilde

Criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. — Denise Brosseau

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. — David Brin

When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal. — Janet Echelman

To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson! — Anna Seward

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity. — Austin O'Malley

Criticism is the seed of divorce, and it develops rebellion in our young. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Time has nothing to do with the matter. — Moliere

I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that. — Steven Spielberg

Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize. — Debasish Mridha

Never let too much criticism or too much praise get in your way. — Leonard Wolf

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

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. — Johannes Kepler

Men from children nothing differ. — William Shakespeare

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend. — Bernard Kerik

Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all. — Michael P. Naughton

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong — Paul Scholes

Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The practice of "reviewing" ... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism. — Henry James

Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it. — Karl Barth

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics. — Ron Fournier

You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going. — Joseph H. Flom

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it. — Clive James

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things. — Jean De La Bruyere

I think criticism of good work should stop somewhere. — Sharad Pawar

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails. — Confucius

Never fear criticism. Use the information to grow your thinking power. — Debasish Mridha

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism. — Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

Mere abuse is no criticism. — P.G. Wodehouse

Criticism is not construction, it is observation. — George William Curtis

If you want to criticize someone, do not compare him with an imaginary creature but yourself. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. — Alexander Pope

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle — Danielle LaPorte

If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me — Miguel El Portugues

Give no time to finding fault of criticism. — Marvin J. Ashton

I just wanted to do something important. — Norman Rockwell

People who avoid criticism will fail. — Timothy Ferriss

In a spectaculist fabrication, the cardinal rule is Shit Blows Up. — Hal Duncan

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism. — G.K. Chesterton

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years. — Albert Ellis

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you. — Bryant McGill

If you plan to be an artist you need to learn how to take criticism and stand up for your work. If you don't love it, no one will. — Jen Frederick

Apparently, faith in life is one thing and faith in literature is another. — Gerald Weaver

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured. — Mary Lawrence

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God. — Joel Osteen

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores. — Publilius Syrus

Most art is just surface noise. — Walter Darby Bannard

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism. — Marvin J. Ashton

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. — Leslie Fiedler

I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities. — John Cheever

To engage with criticism, is on some level, a validation of that which otherwise would go unnoticed. — Jordan Carl Curtis

It is always easier to find fault and criticize than it is to find beauty and appreciation. — Debasish Mridha

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it. — Geraldine Brooks

Learning how to gracefully accept criticism and compliments is hard, but I'm trying. — Glennon Doyle Melton

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think. — Don Mattingly

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. — Clifford Geertz

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism. — Jodi Picoult

You can never learn/improve if you are too proud to accept criticism. — Tarang Sinha

There's always criticism in any process and I think that's a healthy thing. — Jihan El-Tahri

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written. — Stephen King

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily. — Natalia Makarova

I don't take criticism lying down. — William Westmoreland

I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism. — Isabella Rossellini

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature. — Deborah Harkness

Mega biblion, mega kakon (Big book, big evil) — Callimachus

Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be. — Alan Dapre

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. — John M. Gottman

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. I — G.H. Hardy

I never forgive attacks on my work. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. — Margaret Fuller