Quotes of: Critical-mass Keyword

When you believe in yourself it is easier not to take criticism, knock-backs and disappointments personally

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

A blanket could be used to silence your internal critic. And if you don’t shut him up, I’ll do it for you. Geez, I’m trying to read over here, and I can’t focus with his incessant nitpicking. 


Blanket

I wasn't happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I've never said that, but, you know, I'm getting to an age where I think I'd better start saying it... And I don't mean that to sound that I'm being critical of somebody or blaming somebody.

Alexander Haig

However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a rea...

Joan Collins

I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn't bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, a...

Wynton Marsalis

There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.

Michael Eric Dyson

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about...

Ai Weiwei

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Robertson Davies

Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.

Steven Van Zandt

Batting is like another language for Sachin, he always answers his critics by this language.

5 Feet 5 Inch Run Machine – Sachin Tendulkar

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Advice to a Young Critic

To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.

All Is Grist: A Book of Essays

A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity - or none at all - with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it.

The Angel's Game

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be

The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.

Iced

No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just stopped doing.

Jesus Is _______.: Find a New Way to Be Human

People quick to criticize others, but won't shine the light on themselves. You can't always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how precious it is.

Release The Ink

One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise.

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

I had a dream. In the dream someone was critical of my newest novel The Snail's Castle. I said, "don't worry about it. If you don't like it, just throw it out the window." I awoke, grinning, with a wonderful feeling of freedom.

The Snail's Castle

Being overly critical of yourself is like having a relentless, inescapable bully who follows you everywhere you go and abuses you.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life