Criticize Quotes - Page 28

• It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

  Marilyn French

  Men, Faces, Strange

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• The best attitude to take toward back talk is to reach out and embrace it with love, compassion, and understanding. No need to criticize it for its shortcomings or to waste time in recriminations. Just give a loving nod and a hug to any back talk you get, and move on to the joyful creation of your fulfilled life.

  Gay Hendricks

  Attitude, Moving, Loving Life

  Gay Hendricks (2010). “Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True”, p.131, New World Library

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• You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

  Vaclav Havel

  Chance, Whole Life, Refuse

  Vaclav Havel (2009). “To the Castle and Back”, p.11, Vintage

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• What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed.

  Rumi

  Eye, Praise, Clear

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.101, Penguin UK

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• Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

  Christian Bauman

  Art, Writing, Numbers

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• The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Blue, Proof

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• I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to 'Basketball Wives,' 'Housewives of Atlanta.' I am not judging or criticizing those shows at all; what I am saying is the perspective is not necessarily the male perspective. 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is inclusive of everyone.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Basketball, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Jamilah Lemieux, www.ebony.com. September 17, 2012.

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• As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heart, Testing Yourself, Defeat

  "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mean, Heart, Emotional

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

  Eli Broad

  People, Paper, Want

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• You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

  George H. W. Bush

  Hurt, People

  "CNN Live Today" with Daryn Kagan, edition.cnn.com. September 6, 2005.

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• I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

  Jimmy Carter

  Party, White, Government

  "Interview with Former President Jimmy Carter". "Larry King Live", www.realclearpolitics.com. September 20, 2010.

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• However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool.

  Joan Collins

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  Joan Collins (2006). “The Art of Living Well: Looking Good, Feeling Great”, Sourcebooks Incorporated

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• The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.

  Sloane Crosley

  Home, Writing, Night

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• Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

  Erica Jong

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Would Be

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• I live in a world where there's magazines and blogs, and people feel like they are allowed to criticize me, and in the meanest way.

  Khloe Kardashian

  People, Magazines, World

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• I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Movie, Games, People

  "Beyond the shoot-em-up: how gaming got killer stories" by Simon Parkin, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2014.

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• If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.

  Joel Osteen

  Highest, Ifs

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• Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

  Joel Osteen

  Brother, Smart, Love Yourself

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• I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.

  Helen Thomas

  Country, Israel, Thirds

  "Helen Thomas: 'Baloney. I've Never Been Anti-Semitic. I'm a Semite'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. October 12, 2010.

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• Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Strong, Mistake

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• God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Order, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

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• Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Thinking, Want

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• If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.

  Pierre Marie Gallois

  Funny, Humor, Machines

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• A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Writing, Critics, Knows

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