#critic

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ↗

— George Eliot

#affection #altogether #attachment #faults #heaven

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#carried #concerning #critics #did #done

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#articles #criticizing #finally #i #listening

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#bad #controversy #criticized #deserved #felt

As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#believe #both #canon #chase #child

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#because #been #brown #certain #certain way

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

#also #being #criticisms #deal #deeds

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#asking #better #children #critical #other

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#criticize #degree #democracy #important #mistakes

Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space. ↗

— Rob Bishop

#better #better way #critically #defend #enhance