A Quote by Chinua Achebe

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

Chinua Achebe

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Am Critic Greatest People Praise

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Chinua Achebe
Nigerian - Novelist
November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013

You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. I mean, nobody wants to put them out of a job and a good critic is not necessarily a dead critic. It's just that people take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent of stupid -- but most people don't take the trouble.

Edward Albee

The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself.

Wojciech Szczesny

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

Jon Meacham

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

C. S. Lewis

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

Allison Williams

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

Bernard Baruch

Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.

Paul Stanley

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Richard Le Gallienne

The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.

Maximilian Kolbe

I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

Edmonia Lewis

Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.

Bobby Lashley

If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him.