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Criticism

«One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.»
«No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who's giving it»
«Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.»
Author: Jean Sibelius | About: Criticism | Keywords: critic, critics, erected, erecting
«Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism»
«Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.»
«One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.»
«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»
«Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.»
«One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself»
«The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Criticism | Keywords: asperity, quickness

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