Top 1200 Self Criticism Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I do not listen to criticism or flattery, one weakens you and the other angers you.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

As a white fighter, you get twice as much criticism.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

As a songwriter, it's good to have criticism, and I like objective opinions.

The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and more social and related, ego develops. This ego is just on your periphery where you are related with others - just on the boundary of your being. So ego is the periphery of your being, and Self is the center. The child is born with a Self, but unaware. He is a Self, but he is not conscious of the Self.

I have received all this criticism because I am a Latin American.

Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.

Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

I'm willing to sit down with anybody and have constructive criticism.

Criticism is different from violence and damaging public properties.

Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

I try not to get affected by criticism as it is unwanted and I can't control it.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

I don't have any problem with criticism. It's an incentive to refine myself.

Sometimes, you can learn more from criticism than you can from flattery.

Any criticism of someone you love is hard to take.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

As soon as you lose one game, you're going to deal with the criticism.

The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.

I think that criticism is unjustified. It's a cute term, but noone shouldn't be criticized for who he is.

Some people, when they get criticism, they shy away from it.

What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?

Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort.

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do

Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God; for we may be come upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. It is a short road to unselfishness; for nothing is left to self. All that seems to belong most intimately to self, to be self's private property, such as time, home, and rest, are invaded by these continual trials of patience.

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you really are.

My defense is a criticism, but we won a national championship at Duke, so it wasn't that bad.

When you are in the mundane from what is deeper than your self, you realize the mundane to be more than your self, and your self opens. It opens in its structuring and in its form, enabling you as the form of your self to move in the deeper levels of the mundane

Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

There will always be criticism, but I remained calm and relaxed.

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is largely ignored in scientific research, which tends to focus on health and other such benefits. I suppose the difference has to do with the contrast in views of the self from the spiritual and scientific perspectives. Scientists value the self; spiritual traditions have another perspective.