Resolve never to criticize or downgrade yourself, but instead rejoice that you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
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.
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.
Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.
I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
Many of the criticisms about McDonald's are false. We are keen to provide people with as much nutritional information as possible to help them manage their diets.
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter
As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.
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.
