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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 eachAre 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
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
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
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 bellyOf Hart Crane, and of Shelley.
Coleridge was a dope.
Southwell died on a rope. — Roy Fuller
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
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
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
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
How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!
— George Bernard Shaw
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
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 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
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
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
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
