(1787 quotes found)
“What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.”
Octavio Paz
“I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?”
Bill Clinton
“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment”
Elbert Hubbard
“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs”
John Osborne
“I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.”
Noel Coward
“One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.”
Dale Carnegie
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
Wole Soyinka
“Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe