Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

It's a great privilege to be asked to help the country - even if it occasionally comes with some degree of criticism.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

There's always going to be criticism when your name is Jalen. You have to wear a bulletproof vest and be ready for it.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

Most of the criticism I get is that I am too positive and too hopeful... in my words, I don't beat people down enough.

I like to be part of the change I want to see in the world. Not being afraid of criticism is actually a big advantage.

I want to live in Britain with a sense of humour - where there are no groups whose life choices are 'above' criticism.

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.

It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism.

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

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.

Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.

Criticism is important for an actress, and it depends on how you take it. I take it positively and try to learn from it.

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.

We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism.

Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability.

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

We're professionals, we have to deal with criticism. We get talked about a lot but we have to focus on doing our job well.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

My criticism of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan was that it was outside the four corners of the Clean Air Act.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.

[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

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.

I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.

An artist must be open to both appreciation and criticism. It's a part of the learning process, or else there is no growth.

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.

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