Quotes about Criticism

19 quotes about Criticism

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all...

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Quote by Charles Babbage about criticism

If we are to have such a discipline we must have...

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about criticism

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Quote by Harold Bloom about criticism

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Quote by Harold Bloom about criticism

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the...

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.

Quote by Harold Bloom about criticism

Constructive criticism is about finding something good...

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

Quote by Paula Abdul about criticism

I've always been surprised at the degree of success of The Mirror and the Lamp and duration of esteem for it. I had no reason to expect in 1953 that it would appeal to more than a specialized group interested in literary criticism.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about criticism

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.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about criticism

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about criticism

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.

Quote by Winston Churchill about criticism

You know criticism when you get into this business. You...

You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.

Quote by Carmen Electra about criticism

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Quote by Billy Joel about criticism

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about criticism

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are...

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about criticism

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, ...

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Quote by Walter Pater about criticism

People have a right to criticize.

People have a right to criticize.

Quote by Luciano Pavarotti about criticism

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be...

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about criticism

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about...

Quote by Shimon Peres about criticism

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about criticism

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