Quotes for Criticism

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

Steven Pinker

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Henry Miller

I'll take criticism. I know that's part and parcel of football. But when it's just reckless and aggressive, I don't listen.

Jack Wilshere

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

E. M. Forster

My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who's going to be your friend - yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don't like.

Rachel Nichols

In the end, you have to get a little used to these ups and downs, these ups and downs of feelings, criticism and flattery.

Dani Carvajal

You have to accept criticism.

Tony Pulis

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

Steve Earle

I can confidently say that if there is any criticism levelled at me, then I have done that already. It's what happens when you try to be honest and hard-working.

Robert Green

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

During my playing days, when I used to see the repeat telecast of my matches, I used to feel bad on hearing criticism of my game by the commentators.

Sandeep Singh

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

John Updike

Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.

Ann Romney

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

E. W. Howe

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.

Richard E. Grant

The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.

Joseph Brodsky

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

Joseph Brodsky

I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.

Ann Veneman

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

Richard Branson

Especially when you're at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they're doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it's the way I choose to bet.

Richard Branson