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We are all failures- at least the best of us are. — J.M. Barrie

It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'. — Christina Engela

Don't take to heart, any negative criticism. Focus on positive thoughts — Lailah Gifty Akita

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism. — Michael Horton

For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing. — Carmen Electra

He who disagrees with you could be correct whilst he who cheers you on could be making a mistake. Ponder. — Mufti Ismail Menk

Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love. — Kieron Gillen

Ignore negative criticisms, focus on positive thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord. — Henry Allen Ironside

Every opinion based on scientific criticism I welcome. — Karl Marx

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. — Renzo Piano

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

On your way to the top, you always get some chriticism. Criticism is a great motivation. — Wladimir Klitschko

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists. — Robert Benchley

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

Let me just say, I think there's a reasonable criticism to be made of the Obama administration on the way that it left Iraq. — Dexter Filkins

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny. — Tim Ferriss

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit. — John Fante

The first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born. — Margot Fonteyn

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended. — Sterling W. Sill

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on. — Paula Abdul

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. — Josef Skvorecky

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it. — G.K. Chesterton

METHODICISM CHAPTER V. CRITICISM CHAPTER VI. ON EXAMPLES BOOK III. OF STRATEGY — Anonymous

I love my voice. But I'd be the first one to make a criticism of it, so I'm not the best person to critique because I'm pretty hard on myself. — Leigh Bingham Nash

Water inflated the belly
Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley.
Coleridge was a dope.
Southwell died on a rope. — Roy Fuller

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some. — Brad Pitt

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism. — Gore Vidal

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

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances. — Joseph Addison

The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. — Walter Savage Landor

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

When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

No leader lives a day without criticism, and humility will never be more on trial than when criticism comes. — J. Oswald Sanders

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people. — George Bernard Shaw

The pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. — Samuel Johnson

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

Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important? — Allan Dare Pearce

Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that . — Diana Ross

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. — Henry Miller

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'
by Mariah Carey) — Simon Cowell

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Criticism reflects more on the judge than on the subject. — Euphrates Arnaut Moss

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

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck — Eli Wallach

We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference. — Seth Godin

On Art Garfunkel - He makes Paul Simon look like LL Cool J. — Ian Gittins

How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why! — George Bernard Shaw

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection. — Billy Corgan

The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot. — Ray Bradbury

I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track. — Kim Jong Il

I knew I was treading on thin ice. Criticism of anyone's art, no matter how good the intentions, could be risky business. — Emma Scott

Don't take criticism personally; take from it what's useful. Apply it and move on to something better. — Catherine Tate

We live in a society that feeds on criticism. It is so easy to find fault, and to resist doing so requires much discipline. — Gordon B. Hinckley

We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination — Sunday Adelaja

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Aristotle — Aristotle.

There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault. — Fennel Hudson

The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstand criticisms. — Amit Ray

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. — Charles Saatchi

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism. — Agnes Repplier

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. — Anne Stevenson

Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life. — Aaron Lauritsen

I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm. — Jason Najum

To listen to criticism and act on it if it is valid and ignore it if it is not is a sign of intelligence. — Chloe Thurlow

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing. — Oscar Wilde

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. — Harry S. Truman

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. — Gustave Flaubert

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others. — John Lahr

The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family. — David Beckham

It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester] — Owen Hatherley

I welcome reviews from all readers. I take criticism well; but please ... no comments on my author face! — C.C. Alma

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. — Edmund Husserl

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

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough. — Walter Isaacson

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. — David Coverdale

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism. — Laura Riding

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized. — Thomas Moore