Criticism is a surreal
Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it’s bad you wish it would stop, and when it’s good, you can’t get enough. Gale Harold
Criticism
It is a melancholy
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians … Read more
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. G. H. Hardy
If we have any
If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs. Ezra Taft Benson
Successful families try to
Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention. Ezra Taft Benson
I began to realize
I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it. Ezra Taft Benson
Poetry is about as
Poetry is about as much a ‘criticism of life’ as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire. Ezra Pound
I consider criticism merely
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. Ezra Pound
Pay no attention to
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Ezra Pound
When it is about
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy. Evgeny Morozov