Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by the time he was 22. I think 'Pigeon Feathers' was the first collection of stories I read. Only much later did I discover his non-fiction reviewing and art criticism.
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.
Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees.
I like criticism. It makes you strong.
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
I believe in criticism.
The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.
I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting work out in many forms and stages is an extension of how I see things. I feel the art process is best served when it invites comments and constructive criticism from people.
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.
Dare to risk public criticism.
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.
Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.
The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.
The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.
I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
If there's a criticism of 'Cassadaga' that I agreed with, it's that we left things in the oven too long, that songs were overstuffed, with too many ideas competing for space.
I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.
I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.
The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.
The result is an empty thing. The result is I'm happy for the next two days because I get less criticism and more time to improve my team. But what satisfies me the most in my job is to feel emotions, the way we play.
