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#1

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: criticism, critics

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#2

“You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
― John Wooden

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#3

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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#4

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, criticism

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#5

“It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.”
― Daisaku Ikeda

tags: criticism, strength-of-character, value-in-a-person

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#6

“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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#7

“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”
― Jean De La Bruyere

tags: criticism, critique, happiness, pleasure

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#8

“Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: advice, criticism, writing, writing-advice

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#9

“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: art, criticism

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#10

“The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: bad-intentions, criticism, envy, good-intentions, inspirational, intentions, kindness, motives, necessary, purity, sincerity, spot, validity, weakness

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#11

“Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their ﬁelds are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts.”
― Rodolfo Costa, Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

tags: criticism, fear-of-failure, opinion, self-confidence, self-doubt

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#12

“Critique by creating.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

tags: creativity, criticism

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#13

“One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: conviction, cultivate, determination, excel, meaning, monopolize, perseverance, practice, rejection, respect, skills, subdue, success, talents, training

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#14

“No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

tags: censure, character-flaws, criticism, double-standards, faults

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#15

“A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run”
― Channing Pollock

tags: author, critic, criticism, inspirational, writer, writers-quotes, writing

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#16

“If only it were as easy to do the work of others
as it is to criticize their performance.”
― Dan Poynter

tags: criticism

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#17

“Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.”
― Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story

tags: ava-gardner, criticism, publicity

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#18

“Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.”
― Edward Dahlberg

tags: criticism

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#19

“One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized”
― Dr. Amit Abraham

tags: criticism

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#20

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

tags: girls, inspirational, pretty, strength, women

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#21

“I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
― Mae West

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#22

“She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..”
― Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Vol. 18: Tsunade's Choice

tags: funny, manga, naruto, women

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#23

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine Albright

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#24

“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”
― Joan of Arc

tags: feminism, historical, inspirational, legendary, women

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#25

“I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.”
― Gilda Radner

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#26

“Only cowards torture women.”
― Patricia Briggs, Raven's Shadow

tags: cowards, torture, women

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#27

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology, relationships, sons, women

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#28

“When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.”
― Helen Rowland, A Guide To Men: Being Encore Reflections Of A Bachelor Girl

tags: humor, marriage, women, work

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#29

“When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: boyfriend, girlfriend, inspirational, jealous, life, love, marriage, men, motivational, relationship, women

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#30

“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

tags: argument, control, dispute, empowerment, intelligence, men, self-control, superiority, wit, women

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