Ah, but sir,' said Lascelles, 'it is precisely by passing judgments upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest thing in the world to turn a review to one's own ends. One only need mention the book once or twice and for the rest of the article one may develop one's theme just as one chuses. It is, I assure you, what every body else does.
Susanna ClarkeTag: criticism
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: inspirational opinions criticism paranoia contradiction correcting correction
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
Georgia O'KeeffeTag: inspirational art criticism
It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns"
(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'
by Mariah Carey)
Tag: wit criticism american-idol judging
You sounded like Dolly parton on helium."
(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)
Tag: wit criticism american-idol judging
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
Chuck PalahniukTag: art creativity criticism creation
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
E.M. ForsterTag: reading criticism praise reviewing reading-books exaggeration long-book overpraising
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Edith SitwellTag: philosophy emotion criticism
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.
Camille PagliaTag: inspirational art sex america liberal criticism responsibility culture victim libertarian democrat republican trauma
But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.
Eric WrightTag: life dreams criticism failure
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