Top 1200 Constructive Criticism Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me, a critic is someone who analyzes a show, describes it, talks about the people in it, puts it in historical context of other shows like it, compares it and stuff, and then talks about the intent of the show and whether it failed or didn't.

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.

The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and attitudes towards each other. The children's books come from the reverse. They're more supportive, since we're living in a time where we talk more about kids and do less, we talk about balancing the budget and we do it by cutting education.

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.

I think of feedback as constructive, not positive or negative. You choose to do what you want with it.

The government of Odisha believes in constructive cooperation with the Centre.

DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.

Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history , for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in doubt , which drives a wedge into the world of false assurances.

Failing once doesn't make you a failure. One difference between a successful person and an average person is how much criticism they can take, the average person cannot take much criticism and that's why they fail to be leaders and they do remain average all their lives

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.

We are all in favor of the U.S. taking an active and constructive interest in Asia.

We can improve the utility of email by maneouvring its use in a constructive manner.

Whenever the country has faced a crisis, the TDP has played a positive and constructive role.

Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself. In this way criticism must resolve things such that the development of this Substance drives itself forward to the Universality and Certainty of the Idea of its actual existence, the Eternal Self-consciousness.

The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

I don't want to grow a thick skin. Some people say, "Oh, you're an actress, you have to get used to criticism." But I don't accept that. I'll never get used to criticism, and I'll always care about whether or not people like my performances - because I'm an entertainer, and I want to please.

In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.

I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

All families have disagreements, but good often comes of it if they are constructive discussions.

We`re not in agreement on all topics. I had a conversation with Mr. [Donald] Trump that was open and constructive.

Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine.

Every time you make the right choice in the face of potential criticism you build strength that makes choosing the right easier the next time. When you make it clear that you will not vary from your standards, you will be led to individuals like yourself and the criticism from others will become less intense.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .

Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.

The right to criticize must be earned, even if the advice is constructive in nature.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

There is great potential to use computer vision technology in a constructive and benevolent way.

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed.

There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.

To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.

Feminism doesn't have a particularly constructive image, although I think there was time when it was relevant.

In the eight years I worked at newspapers, even during a little stretch when I was a film critic, I was never, ever doing exclusively criticism. In the daily newspaper world, much more value is placed on reporting than on thinking abstractly about art. The eight years I was in newspapers, I was mainly a journalist in the conventional sense, and just doing criticism when there were opportunities.

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

I've been mentored by editors who encouraged me to be constructive and never cruel.

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

Parents still have primary responsibility for raising children, but they must have the power to do so in ways consistent with their children's needs and their own values.... We must address ourselves less to the criticism and reform of parents themselves than to the criticism and reform of the institutions that sap their self-esteem and power.

I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films. But there's definitely beauty and art and design in games. I don't think anybody could deny that.