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• If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it’s that they’re almost entirely scripted.

  Jimmy Kimmel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Criticism, Entirely

• If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.

  Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Duck, Criticism

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

  Emil Cioran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Criticism, Misconceptions

• I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we’ve made a very modest movie.

  Walter Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Criticism, Modest

• Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in News, Criticism

• You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don’t just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

  Renny Harlin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Herd, Criticism

• They criticize me for harping on the obvious – If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Topics in America

  Tags in Criticism, American

• American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

  Edward Albee

  Topics in America

  Tags in Dull, Criticism, American

• According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Criticizes, Praise, Criticism, Master

• Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Art, Life

  Tags in Parasitic, Just, Criticism

• The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and every man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Limitations, Understanding, Criticism

• A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

  David Brinkley

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Controversy, Criticism

• If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Heart, Evil, Strength, Criticism

• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prejudice, Criticism

• You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

  John Wooden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Praise, Criticism

• Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.

  James Luther Adams

  Topics in Dissent, Perfection

  Tags in Criticism

• Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Patriotism, Criticism

• Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

  William Arthur Ward

  Topics in Encouragement, Love

  Tags in Criticism

• Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers.

  John Gardner

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Criticism

• Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Values, Judgment, Criticism