Browsing Topic Best Critics Quotes

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

America is a nation of believers, dreamers and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.

If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.

Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.

Critics on the left even have a term for it: ‘PEP.’ Progressive except Palestine. Progressive when it comes to standing up for marginalized minorities at home, or persecuted groups abroad..but not in Israel and the Occupied Territories.

Young people need models, not critics.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing for and sharing with each other … We cannot move forward if cynics and critics swoop down and pick apart anything that goes wrong, to a point where we lose sight of what is right, decent and uniquely good about America.

I’ve discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don’t really know much about movies. They don’t know the history. They don’t know the technology. They don’t know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they’re lost.

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics – and our external ones too – the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

It’s not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.

We have been educated to such a fine – or dull – point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it’s all about. We don’t trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It’s the democratic way.

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. … Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.

It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we’ve forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.

Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.