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#1

“Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

tags: criticism, judgement, poetry

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#2

“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
― William Penn

tags: 1693, criticism, helping-others, misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misquote, volunteerism

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#3

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, conflict, criticism, defaming, gossip, hatred, hypocrisy, hypocrisy-in-everyone, hypocrites, insecurity, jealous-women, jealousy, judgement, low-self-esteem, revenge, rumors, self-observation, slander, women

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#4

“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
― Georgia O'Keefe

tags: art, criticism, inspirational

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#5

“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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#6

“It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: art, creation, creativity, criticism

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#7

“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”
― John Wooden

tags: coaching, corrections, criticism

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#8

“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: creation, creativity, criticism, wisdom, wisdom-quote, wise

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#9

“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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#10

“I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.”
― Leonard Bernstein

tags: creativity, criticism, critics

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#11

“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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#12

“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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#13

“We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: criticism, critics

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#14

“When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.”
― Judith Martin

tags: criticism, praise, self-esteem, virtues

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#15

“The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

tags: criticism, critics, mediocrity

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#16

“Critique by creating.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

tags: creativity, criticism

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#17

“It’s easier to pick apart what is, than put together what isn’t.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

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#18

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

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#19

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

tags: imagination, writing

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#20

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence

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#21

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: imagination

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#22

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
― Sidney Sheldon

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#23

“A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: dreams, healing, heart, imaginary-friend, imagination, inspirational, pretending, richelle, richelle-goodrich, soothing, soul, strength

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#24

“A poor original is better than a good imitation.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

tags: art, imagination, originality

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#25

“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
― Lemmy Kilmister

tags: books, films, imagination, lemmy-kilmister, movies, reading, vision

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#26

“Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.”
― David Almond, My Name Is Mina

tags: hope, imagination, night, sleep

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#27

“Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.”
― Jonathan Franzen

tags: imagination, internet, writing

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#28

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship

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#29

“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
― Leo Buscaglia

tags: change, learning

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#30

“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography

tags: education, encouragement, instruction, learning, school

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