For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking.
One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'
Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.
Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.
Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.
Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
Goalkeepers get criticism for commenting on outfield players, but outfield players can comment on goalkeeping; it is not a two-way street.
As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.