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Criticism

«In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.»
Author: Harold Bloom (Critic, Educator, Scholar) | About: Criticism | Keywords: The Finest
«I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.»
Author: Shania Twain (Singer) | About: Criticism | Keywords: criticized, original
«It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.»
«It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him»
«It is easier to be critical than correct.»
«If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld | About: Criticism | Keywords: criticized
«If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.»
Author: Malcolm X | About: Criticism | Keywords: critics
«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 F.B.I.-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-»
«It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances»
«I criticize by creation, not by finding fault»

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