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A good writer is not necessarily
a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically
a good bartender. Jim Bishop |
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At any moment each person is always
doing the VERY BEST he can, based on his total conscious and non
conscious prevailing awareness and which is within his capabilities,
energy, time, and developed talents and abilities. If people are
always doing the very best they can, it is illogical and irrational
to expect them to do better. What is the reason this concept is
so important to understand? If it is true, then it is counterproductive
to criticize someone for not meeting or conforming to an expectation
or standard until they have the awareness of the benefits they will
receive by conforming. What needs to exist is for people to be made
aware of how they will get better results, by pointing out the consequences
of their behavior and giving them the choice and opportunity to
make adjustments. Sidney Madwed |
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Criticism is the disapproval of
people, not for having faults, but having faults different from
your own. Author Unknown |
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Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue,
disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant,
smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it. Author
Unknown |
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Doubtless criticism was originally
benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects.
The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes
turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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I have found it advisable not to
give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish
something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done.
I deem that the very best time to make the effort. Calvin
Coolidge |
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If you believe in what you are doing,
then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work
of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The
thing is to get the work done. Dale Carnegie |
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If you must speak ill of another,
do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napolean Hill |
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In my wide association in life,
meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I
have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station,
who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a
spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
Charles M. Schwab |
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It is a barren kind of criticism
which tells you what a thing is not. R. W. Griswold
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It is folly for an eminent person
to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it.
All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age,
have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense
against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness,
as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Joseph Addison |
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Most of our censure of others is
only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority
of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and
all the ill-desert of falsehood. Tyron Edwards |
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Ours is an age of criticism, to
which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion,
and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds
for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, but, if they
are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason
accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public
examination. Immanuel Kant |
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Ten censure wrong, for one that
writes amiss. Alexander Pope |
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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
Marianne Moore |
