For (strange as it may sound to many people, who tend to think of critics as being motivated by the lower emotions: envy, disdain, contempt even) critics are, above all, people who are in love with beautiful things, and who worry that those things will get broken. What motivates so many of us to write in the first place is, to begin with, a great passion for a subject (Tennessee Williams, Balanchine, jazz, the twentieth-century novel, whatever) that we find beautiful; and, then, a kind of corresponding anxiety about the fragility of that beauty.
Daniel MendelsohnTag: critics
Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!
Mehmet Murat ildanTag: critics
Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.
Orrin WoodwardTag: motivation critics haters
Those who lack the guts to create critic.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: art courage critics creator guts
He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: smile critic hypocrisy critics compliment feedback frown
To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: success criticism failure critics please
Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: procrastination criticism critics livelihood
Critiquing a doer isn’t doing.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaIs not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?
William K. WimsattTag: literature meaning interpretation critics
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.
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