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"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." Uta Hagan 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We like to praise birds for flying. But how much of it is actually flying, and how much of it is just sort of coasting from the previous flap?" Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." Elizabeth Harrison 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase … The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive." Frank Herbert 2.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too." D. J. Hicks 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else." Richard Hofstadter Rate this Quote
"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism." Michael Horton 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." Elbert Hubbard 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"To escape criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." Elbert Hubbard 4.7778 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism." Robert Maynard Hutchins Rate this Quote
"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away--and barefoot." Sarah Jackson 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"He who praises everybody, praises nobody." Dr. Samuel Johnson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P. Jones 3.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it." Howard Mumford Jones 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Children need models more than they need critics." Joseph Joubert 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses." Johann Kepler 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history." Arthur Koestler 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it." Jesse Lair 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?" Charles Augustus Lindbergh 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
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Albert Einstein Ambrose Gwinett Bierce André Maurois
Arthur Koestler Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Franklin
Brendan Francis Behan Carolyn Coats Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. Dale Carnegie Denis Diderot
Dr. Samuel Johnson D. J. Hicks Elbert Hubbard
Eleanor Roosevelt Elizabeth Harrison Franklin P. Jones
Frank A. Clark Frank Herbert Frank Herbert Dune
George Eliot Henri-Frédéric Amiel Henry Fielding
Henry Louis Mencken Honoré de Balzac Howard Mumford Jones
H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky H. Jackson Brown Jackie Collins
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Jesse Lair Joe Moore
Johann Kepler John Anthony Ciardi John Kenneth Galbraith
John L. Casteel Joseph Addison Joseph Joubert
Jose Narosky Kahlil Gibran Lavina Christensen Fugal
Lavina Goodell Leonardo da Vinci Lord Melbourne
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Marcus Tullius Cicero Michael Horton
Micheál MacLiammóir Noel Coward Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Phyllis McGinley Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Hofstadter Robert Bridges Robert Maynard Hutchins
Roger Anderson Sarah Jackson Siddha Nagarjuna
Sir Francis Bacon Sir William Arthur Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Uta Hagan Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi W. Somerset Maugham
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