Criticism quotes and words of wisdom |  | "Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise,
yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from
faults, nor yet too vain to mend." | |  | Alexander Pope
| | | "CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work." | | | Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
| | | "Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their
ploughing of the soil. The muscles of the horse are as taut as
fiddle-strings, and suddenly a horse-fly alights on its croup, buzzing and
stinging. The horse"s skin quivers, it waves its tail. What is the fly
buzzing about? It probably doesn"t know itself. It simply has a restless
nature and wants to make itself felt ? "I"m alive, too, you know!" it
seems to say. "Look, I know how to buzz, there"s nothing I can"t buzz
about!" I"ve been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and
can"t remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good
advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was
Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a
ditch." | | | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
| | | "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
| | | "Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for
its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a
procedure." | | | Sir Kingsley William Amis
| | | "The real aim of criticism is not the destruction of cherished
traditions ? although a due regard for the facts does often compel us to
revise older opinions ? but a fuller appreciation of the beauty and truth
of the creative work on which it fixes its regard. The word "criticism" is
derived from the Greek word kritikos, which means "the ability to select or
discriminate," hence, to decide or judge. The meaning of criticism is thus
discriminating judgment." | | | Unknown
| | | "Watson himself said that when he was able to develop loyalty in men,
ability followed. "Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute
loyalty in big matters and little ones," he declared. Criticism, if
necessary at all, was permitted only to superiors." | | | Thomas J. Watson
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Interesting Quotes
He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgunSteady Eddy
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.Robert Oppenheimer
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