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Criticism
Fix the problem,not the blame.
-Japanese Proverb
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us.
-Anon.
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
-Anon.,"North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon"
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
-H. Jackson Brown,Jr.
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
-Fidel Castro,in John Newhouse,"Socialism of Death",The New Yorker,1992.
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
-Charles Horton Cooley,Life and the Student
Now,in reality,the world have paid too great a compliment to critics,and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
-Henry Fielding
In all life one should comfort the afflicted,but verily,also,one should afflict the comfortable,and especially when they are comfortably,contentedly,even happily wrong.
-John Kenneth Galbraith,"London Guardian",July 8,1989
Honest criticism is hard to take,particularly from a relative,a friend,an acquaintance or a stranger.
-Franklin P. Jones
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
-W. Somerset Maugham,The Summing Up
“Complaining about something without taking any action to correct it is irresponsible. If a condition deserves criticism,it deserves an honest attempt to change it.”
-John Renesch
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
-Kenneth Tynan
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
-Kenneth Tynan,Tynan Right and Left (Foreword),1967
Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described,if the description itself is not the criticism.
-Gore Vidal,New York Review of Books,1993
I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... "Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best." The mortality among pianists in that place is marvellous.
-Oscar Wilde,Impressions of America,1906
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark,up to no good.
-P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse,"New York "Mirror"",May 27,1955.
-Japanese Proverb
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us.
-Anon.
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
-Anon.,"North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon"
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
-H. Jackson Brown,Jr.
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
-Fidel Castro,in John Newhouse,"Socialism of Death",The New Yorker,1992.
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
-Charles Horton Cooley,Life and the Student
Now,in reality,the world have paid too great a compliment to critics,and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
-Henry Fielding
In all life one should comfort the afflicted,but verily,also,one should afflict the comfortable,and especially when they are comfortably,contentedly,even happily wrong.
-John Kenneth Galbraith,"London Guardian",July 8,1989
Honest criticism is hard to take,particularly from a relative,a friend,an acquaintance or a stranger.
-Franklin P. Jones
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
-W. Somerset Maugham,The Summing Up
“Complaining about something without taking any action to correct it is irresponsible. If a condition deserves criticism,it deserves an honest attempt to change it.”
-John Renesch
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
-Kenneth Tynan
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
-Kenneth Tynan,Tynan Right and Left (Foreword),1967
Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described,if the description itself is not the criticism.
-Gore Vidal,New York Review of Books,1993
I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... "Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best." The mortality among pianists in that place is marvellous.
-Oscar Wilde,Impressions of America,1906
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark,up to no good.
-P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse,"New York "Mirror"",May 27,1955.