Quotes for All
I believe in truths, but I don’t believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that scientists are privy to, has been a very counterproductive vision. It has served scientists very well, but what it has done, above all, is encloses the world of science and … Read more
I love constructive criticism. Eva Mendes
I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren’t really public servants. Eugene Jarecki
Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn’t get out of its rut. Eugene Delacroix
Cold exactitude is not art… The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas. Eugene Delacroix
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense. Ethan Coen
It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper. Errol Flynn
To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue. Ernst Mayr
The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion. Ernest Holmes
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these … Read more