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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.”

Writing Criticism Hazards

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.”

Art Ambition Criticism

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Scott Adams

Cartoonist

“There's a fine line between participation and mockery.”

Lines Criticism

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Scott Adams

Cartoonist

“It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.”

Careers Criticism

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.”

Criticism Negative Negative Criticism

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Seth Godin

Author, Entrepreneur

“What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.”

People Criticism

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Robert Kennedy

Politician

“A life without criticism is not worth living.”

Criticism Worth Living

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside”

Writing Reading Criticism

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Rand Paul

Politician

“What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.”

Thinking Games Criticism

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Ray Bradbury

Author

“The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.”

Years Missing Criticism

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Rebecca West

Novelist, Journalist

“A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.”

Real Criticism Fake

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Shania Twain

Singer-songwriter

“Criticism is always going to be painful. You live through it. I'll live through it now. It's even harder when you're younger. You don't have the maturity. You're still developing. If you get damaged while you're developing, it's a psychological battle after that. Today, if I get the criticism, I'm not bothered...if I wear the wrong thing, I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Maybe when I was younger, I might have been more affected by that.”

Sleep Criticism Maturity

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