Smile at your critics for they have yet to see the universe that exists outside the box
Many critics are born of envy.
I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
Critics work for you;they reveal your weaknesses.Critics work against you;they envy your strengths.Wisdom works for you;it counters your weaknesses.Faith works for you;it increases your strengths.Forg...
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
Critical voices have to care about history. We have to care about the way in which things get controlled in the past because that's when the damage gets done and if we don't keep that historical memor...
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full...
A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.
Critasism is just a way of saying i'm jelous of your talents
Two and two continue to make four in spite of the whine of the amateur for three or the cry of the critic for five.
I started this dirty quote business when I noticed that I only tend to read authors when their quotes convince me of wit and style. In a world overflowing with bad literature and corrupted product-pla...
There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.
This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.
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