Criticize Quotes - Page 9

• Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

  Scott Berkun

  Differences, Praise, Hallmark

  Scott Berkun (2011). “Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds”, p.38, BookBaby

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• You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing

  Mark Rippetoe

  Criticism, Definitions, Command

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• They might be a good friend, but they are also a bitter commercial rival. Let's not kid ourselves.. The American wheat industry has done everything it possibly can to criticize the Australian wheat industry in order to take the Iraqi wheat market from us.

  John Howard

  Friendship, Kids, Good Friend

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• When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that are comprehensible, and it's easy to criticize something you can understand.

  Billy Collins

  Real, Thinking, Risk

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

  Dan Savage

  Pride, Gay, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

  Romario

  Strikes, Strike Back, Ifs

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• Be slow to criticize. And fast to APPRECIATE

  Robin Sharma

  Appreciate

  Twitter post from Sep 04, 2016

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• You aren't always going to make stuff that everybody does. The sooner that you just realize that and accept that, the better. At best, hopefully, you will like it, every time, and that might not even happen. It's the nature of your work. It's just what comes with it. So, it makes it easier to deal with anybody criticizing you or anything thinking you're wonderful when you realize that you just need to focus in this one area, which is your creative fulfillment and enjoyment.

  Sharlto Copley

  Thinking, Creative, Focus

  Source: collider.com

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• I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  My Own

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• There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs.

  Criss Jami

  Names, Differences, People

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• In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people.

  Rand Paul

  People, Abhorrent, Groups

  "Rand Paul on Civil Rights: Private Restaurants Wouldn’t Have To Serve Martin Luther King" by Taylor Marsh, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2010.

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• Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.

  Stephen Covey

  Cancer, Emotional, Circles

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

  Winston Churchill

  America, Criticism, Tables

  "Churchill By Himself" by Ed. Langworth, p. 128, 2008.

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• When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Speak, Should

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• Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.

  William Blake

  Art, Rome, States

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• The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

  John Dewey

  Community, Improvement, Problem

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.64, 谷月社

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• Reagan Republicans do not criticize the other Republicans.

  Megyn Kelly

  Republican

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.

  Claire Danes

  Ego, Causes, Brilliant

  "Zac Efron and Claire Danes Interview ME AND ORSON WELLES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 24, 2009.

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• It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Ideas, Two

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• It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Appreciate, Easy, Difficult

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• I don't need to put jewels on to make myself feel important. I'd rather drop them for the benefit of less fortunate people. I don't need to put gold on my body, and I'm not criticizing people who do, but for me, I'd rather be around my family and see them be happy because that's worth more to me than gold.

  Immortal Technique

  Jewels, People, Important

  "The Transcendence Of Hip Hop - An Interview With Immortal Technique". Interview with Chris Grosso, theindiespiritualist.com. February 20, 2014.

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• Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

  Ingmar Bergman

  People, Gossip, Solitude

  "Fictional character: Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg". "Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)", December 26, 1957.

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• We are not in a position to criticize anyone. The existence of enemies means for us that our friendliness has not been sufficient enough.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Enemy, Enough

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• Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.

  Gemma Halliday

  Fashion, Father, Men

  Gemma Halliday (2015). “Killer in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #2”, p.20, Gemma Halliday Publishing

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• We're gonna believe in each other, we're not gonna criticize each other, we're not gonna talk about each other, we're gonna encourage each other

  Bo Schembechler

  Believe

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