Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
Bernard De Voto
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Charles Horton Cooley
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism.
Frank A. Clark
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H.L. Mencken
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold MacMillan
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.
Henri Frdric Amiel
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