sometimes in your works, give people the opportunity to express their ignorance; then you prove the wrong with your works.

sometimes in your works, give people the opportunity to express their ignorance;then you prove them wrong with your works.

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born.

Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

Being overly critical of yourself is like having a relentless, inescapable bully who follows you everywhere you go and abuses you.

I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".

...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.

There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.