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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
After I left Treasury, I think in some ways it was harder to sit there and be writing my book... listening to all the criticism.
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.
Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.
Criticism's healthy. It gives you that extra little bit inside you to prove people wrong, to use it as energy, to use it as fuel.
Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
I didn't take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that's when I went to being the MVP.
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.
A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.
Valid criticism is something that we are open for, and we take it in the spirit in which it is given and try to improve ourselves.
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
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.
It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.
Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
For all the criticism of me, there's one thing you won't hear anybody say, and that's that I've pulled the wool over anyone's eyes.
Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.
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.
In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it.
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.
Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
I understand my teammates. I know which teammates you can get on during the game, and which respond better to constructive criticism.
People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?
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.
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.
People abuse for no reason, because they can do it anonymously. There's a lot of negativity, criticism and hatred as an artist grows.
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves... He must have the passion of a lover.
It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
Criticism of the Middle East should not be directed only at Saudi Arabia. Human rights abuses are happening throughout the Arab world.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.
You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
You can't make everyone happy. You just do what you can, and that's it... you're always going to catch criticism no matter what you do.