Creating a fan base of both fervent feelers and fanboys, Trump magnificently played off many fawning commentator’s insecurities – using the deep desire to be liked or noticed by Trump as a method to keep their criticism of him tamped down.
Criticism does not constitute violence.
If you’re going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can’t be politically correct when you do that.
The beauty of the tea party movement is that it is independent and thus a true check and balance of the Republican and Democrat parties. It’s not a pawn of the GOP, thus untouchable in criticism of the Democrats – I view it as an unattached conscience of the Republican party.
As a principle, I will never react to film criticisms. As long as they are part of film fraternity, whatever they say will be beneficial to cinema.
What I have more of a problem accepting is the criticism of former players turned journalists, who – some of them – spread their hatred.
Criticism is okay from people who know the finer points of cinema.
Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
Throughout my career, I have criticized my every single step and I am open to any criticism.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Be kind and considerate with your criticism… It’s just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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.
When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one’s own music being played.
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
It is with passion that I love my job. But it is with character that I am able to keep looking forward. Not just beyond criticism or bad results, but also beyond the good moments, too. Everything has to be a balance.
I think criticism, or a critical engagement with history, has a good deal to do with a willingness to be fooled.
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.
There are two sides always – when something works, it is hailed, but when something doesn’t, it is all criticism.
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.
Claudia Rankine’s book-length poem ‘Citizen’ was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is one of the most devastating takes on American culture I have read in a long time, laying bare the stakes of being black in a country long ambivalent about our presence here.
You learn from any criticism. You learn from any self-criticism. And you learn from when you do things the right way: you try to keep going.
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
Learn to distance yourself from the criticism.
Much as criticism can and has been made as to how E.U. law has been created, there is much in it that affects our daily lives for the better and is welcomed by many without them being necessarily aware of where it comes from.
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.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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, and you lose interest in that stuff. It’s not serious.
You can take a bit of criticism from your manager now and then, but you have to react to it which I have done.
Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
Before Katrina, you didn’t see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn’t even see criticism. It wasn’t until Katrina that people started to come down on them.
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
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.
There’s a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa’s best friend. But the evidence doesn’t show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa’s resources in deals that are structured to favor China.
I am neither hurt nor disturbed by the occasional backbiting and criticism from my colleagues. By and large, the music industry has been very supportive.
Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
Once people write criticism about something – and even in 1967 I was far from alone – they’re assuming it’s art, and art is supposed to last.
Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it’s a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?
The first article carrying Vonnegut’s byline, ‘This Business of Whistle Purchasing,’ a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science.
In football you can take the praise when it comes, but you’ve got to be ready to take the criticism as well.
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it’s biased and there’s no truth in it, then I don’t care about it. If it’s true, it helps me grow.
There’s nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I’m not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
I’m fine with criticism against me.
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.
I have come to this conclusion: if ‘sentimentality’ is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve wanted to represent Las Vegas more. Represent the Southwest. It’s a magical place. The desert. I do understand people’s criticisms, but it’s a magical place and a beautiful city, even though there are a lot of things that are wrong with it.
Sometimes I think that the public’s lack of criticism of the rich – and how they seek their pleasure – might derive from the fact that Americans still believe they will one day be joining their number.
Today, ‘fat’ has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
