Quotes for Criticism

The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

Octavio Paz

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Emil Cioran

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Jane Campion

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

E. W. Howe

The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.

Tony McCoy

We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.

Craig David

What aren't the pressures of being an actress? Don't get me wrong, I love my job. It has been my one and only dream but it's scary. There's a certain lifestyle and image one has to live up to or face the criticism which is quite harsh and cruel.

Amyra Dastur

I was a newcomer and I was asked to put on weight for 'Veer' since I was playing a princess from the era gone by. I received a lot of criticism from those who were supposed to understand such intricacies of cinema.

Zareen Khan

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Bertrand Russell

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Jodi Picoult

Critics and criticism are part of the game and I've not been affected by it.

Gervinho

It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. On the contrary, the life and character of its justices should be the objects of constant watchfulness by all, and its judgments subject to the freest criticism.

David Josiah Brewer

I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.

Derek Jeter

I have moments of weakness, but mostly I brush the criticism off... Who cares if I'm not a size zero? I don't want to be. I love my body; I'm healthy, I work out.

Khloe Kardashian

A large part of the appeal of this novel when I was lucky enough to stumble across the story idea for 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was that I'd finally be writing a horror novel. In a lot of ways, the book is both my criticism of and love letter to horror.

Paul G. Tremblay

I welcome criticism. I come from a - I wouldn't say mean, but you've got to have tough skin to be in my family.

Saweetie

Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.

Jim Gaffigan

In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.

Sixto Rodriguez

P&G started in 1837, Nestle in 1857. These companies have been around for so long because they are in tune with society. They are very responsible companies, despite the challenges that they sometimes deal with, all the criticism they get.

Paul Polman

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.

Harold Bloom