Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.
~By Richard E. Grant ~
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
~By Sidney Hook ~
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
~By Marvin J. Ashton ~
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.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
~By Walter Hill ~
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
~By Johann Kepler ~
Dare to risk public criticism.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
~By Phil Donahue ~
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
~By Harold Bloom ~
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.
~By Helen Rowland ~
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.
~By John Gresham Machen ~
I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
~By Laura Bush ~
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
~By Robert Frank ~
I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.
~By Lee Scott ~
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.
~By Ezra Pound ~
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
~By Milan Kundera ~
And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.
~By Michael Chertoff ~
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?
~By Robert McChesney ~
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
~By Louis Leakey ~
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
~By A. E. Housman ~
You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.
~By Renny Harlin ~
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.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.
~By Spike Lee ~
I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
~By Tim Robbins ~
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
~By John Updike ~
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
~By Robert Taft ~
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
~By Octavio Paz ~
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.
~By Wim Wenders ~
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
~By Jean Rostand ~
Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
~By Frederick William Faber ~
Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
~By Lord Mountbatten ~
Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
~By Richard King ~
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
~By Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ~
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
~By Robert E. Lee ~
People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
~By Jo Brand ~
Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.
~By Wim Wenders ~
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
~By Henry Miller ~
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
~By Alfred Whitney Griswold ~
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
~By Hugo Black ~
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.
~By Roger Ebert ~
In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
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.
~By Jay Roach ~
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
~By Djuna Barnes ~
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.
~By Howard Finster ~
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
~By Bernard Kerik ~
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.
~By Paul Schrader ~
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
~By Rainer W. Fassbinder ~
I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.
~By Howard Hodgkin ~
If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
~By Margaret Chase Smith ~
We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.
~By Paul Samuelson ~
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
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.
~By Bryan Robson ~
I can take criticisms but not compliments.
~By James Taylor ~
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
~By Balthus ~
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.
~By Tina Yothers ~
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
~By Allen Tate ~
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
~By Karl Popper ~
I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
~By Steve Earle ~
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
~By Helen Rowland ~
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
~By Charley Pride ~
For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
~By Dan Rather ~
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
~By George C. Williams ~
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
~By Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards ~
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
~By Charles Babbage ~
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
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