As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: opinions criticism agreement disagreement comfort suffocation unanimity
Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.
Camille PagliaTags: criticism
[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't true]
Was I to lie in order to teach the truth? ...Was I to repeat these words? It was impossible. It was certain they would stick in my throat. On these grounds the separation was decided by me.
Tags: truth autobiography lie criticism falsehood rabbi
The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.
Gillian FlynnTags: love loss change marriage relationships hatred criticism failure strangers bullying heartbreak nothing flaws broken-heart scary heartless turmoil puppeteer hurtful change-for-worse emotional-turmoil i-miss-who-you-were missing-who-someone-was
Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: procrastination criticism critics livelihood
Critiquing a doer isn’t doing.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaEQUAL RIGHTS and FREE DISCUSSION will be fearlessly advocated and maintained. Sectarian dogmas or tenets will be investigated and compared.
Abner ColeTags: equality dogma criticism creed freedom-of-speech rights
And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.
Stephen KingThe best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.
Susan SontagTags: criticism interpretation content form
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope.
Cyril Norman HinshelwoodTags: science truth certainty adventure hope wonder emotion criticism fallacy objectivity infallibility scientist
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