#criticize

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#food #get #i #novels #putting

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France. ↗

— Christine Lagarde

#criticized #france #heavily #i #praised

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity. ↗

— Kenny G

#criticized #else #i #increase #know

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#being #clear #commensurate #criticized #ethical

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#criticized #lies #strength #thing #weakness

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#criticize #doubt #history #hopes #human

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#anyone #balance #consumerism #criticize #dwell

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#country #criticizes #his #implied #paying

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself. ↗

— LeBron James

#criticize #every #every night #give #giving