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Bob Dylan
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
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Rupert Murdoch
I don't give a damn what the media critics say. It's what your readers say. If you haven't got any readers, you're only talking to yourself.
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J. Paul Getty
Praise should always be given in public, criticism should always be given in private.
How to Be Rich (1965)
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Mary Kay Ash
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
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Henry Miller
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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Dale Carnegie
Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
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Miguel Unamuno
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found
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Jean Rostand
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are
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Henri Amiel
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated - it is an art
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Henry Mencken
Criticism is prejudice made plausible
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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