In order to excel you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication you won't be able to do this.

The better a work is the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

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.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

In a way a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved you can still make enemies makes you humble too.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science it is an aid to art.

Science must begin with myths and with the criticism of myths.

Perhaps it would be better for science that all criticism should be avowed.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.

There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer...' that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

I mean the part you don't like I mean that's the only part. That's the part no one likes and that is the criticisms and the unfair criticisms I might add of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

In my opinion the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are at the same time poetry criticism narrative drama etc.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work I'll leave that for others to decide.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.