#criticism

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. ↗

— George Eliot

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Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#criticism #exceeds #feel #give #much

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#most #praise #rather #ruined #saved

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#boredom #criticism #form

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#criticism #get #give #learn #read

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#best #criticism #displaced #freud #kind

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#come #consider #created #criticism #excitement

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#criticism #help #i #learned #more

For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt. ↗

— Dan Rather

#criticism #his #hurt #just #justified