Meditative Thoughts On Criticism
Criticism is the disapproval
of people, not for having faults, but having faults different
from your own. Author Unknown
Don't mind criticism.
If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation;
if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not
criticism, learn from it. - Author Unknown
Doubtless criticism
was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of
a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have
made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned
the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have found it advisable
not to give too much heed to what people say when I am
trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably
they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best
time to make the effort. Calvin Coolidge
If you believe in what
you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.
Much of the best work of the world has been done against
seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
- Dale Carnegie
If you must speak ill
of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near
the water's edge. - Napolean Hill
In my wide association
in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts
of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great
or exalted his station, who did not do better work and
put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than
he would ever do under a spirit of criticism. - Charles
M. Schwab
It is a barren kind
of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. - R.
W. Griswold
It is folly for
an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness
to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity,
and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery
persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity;
it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and
invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. -
Joseph Addison û
Most of our censure
of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show
the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the
insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of
falsehood. - Tyron Edwards
Ours is an age of criticism,
to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of
religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many
regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination
by this tribunal, but, if they are exempted, and cannot
lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only
to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.
- Immanuel Kant
Ten censure wrong,
for one that writes amiss. - Alexander Pope
We are suffering from
too much sarcasm. - Marianne Moore
At any moment each person
is always doing the very Best he or she can, based on their
total conscious and non conscious prevailing awareness and
which is within their capabilities, energy, time, and developed
talents and abilities. If people are always doing the very
best they can, it is illogical and irrational to expect them
to do better. What is the reason this concept is so important
to understand? If it is true, then it is counterproductive
to criticize someone for not meeting or conforming to an expectation
or standard until they have the awareness of the benefits they
will receive by conforming. What needs to exist is for people
to be made aware of how they will get better results, by pointing
out the consequences of their behavior and giving them the
choice and opportunity to make adjustments.- Sidney Madwed
