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If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.
John Bunyan
If my life is unproductive, it doesn't matter who lauds me, and if my life is productive, it doesn't matter who censures me.
2.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I ignore all external opinions and simply adhere to my own instincts.
3.
Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.
Reinhard Bonnke
'Reject the accolades of others, and you won't be undone by their censure.'
4.
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.
T. D. Jakes
You must understand that if you strive to reach the goals you have been appointed to achieve, you may provoke some criticism from those who are envious, insignificant or irate because they were left in the dust.
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.
Oliver Goldsmith
Assign responsibility where needed, be honest when possible, and bear the role of benevolent observer.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
Wole Soyinka
The gravest menace to liberty is the lack of dissenting views.
8.
We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.
Edward Said
We cannot seek to reclaim our liberties, traditions and prospects until we are equipped with the armament of critique and devoted awareness.
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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
Mark Twain
If you lack the motivation to alter it, you have no entitlement to censure it.
10.
Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals.
Emile Durkheim
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
George Jean Nathan
Examination is the windows and chandeliers of art: it sheds light on the encompassing obscurity in which art might otherwise linger only vaguely visible, and maybe completely overlooked.
12.
Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic
Peyton Manning
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People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less
Bill Walsh
14.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Nellie L. McClung
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No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.
R.K. Narayan
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No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.
Thomas Jefferson
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Iris Murdoch
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
Alan Jay Lerner
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People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.
Daniel Gilbert
21.
Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
Said Nursi
22.
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
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Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.
Man Ray
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Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe
Kanye West
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We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
Vance Havner
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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
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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.
Immanuel Kant
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Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism
Muhammad Iqbal
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.
John M. Gottman
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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Wilson Mizner
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It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.
Anita Sarkeesian
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If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.
Dan Millman
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Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold
Elon Musk
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Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.
Bernard Lewis
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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
Plutarch
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You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
Renzo Piano
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
Victoria Woodhull
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The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
Margaret Chase Smith
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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
Susan Sontag
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A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
48.
I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.
Djuna Barnes
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I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.
Carlos Fuentes
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People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.
Leslie Feinberg