James Dobson Quotes

If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

That is an amazing experience, because we with director Christian Petzold know whenever we criticize each other, it's for the best, and you don't find that very often, that you trust each other so much. That's a special thing.

I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.

When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

No commission created in this town has automatic credibility. You have to earn it.

There is a difference between constructive criticism and criticism that is hateful. I can criticize America, but in a way that shows that I want to improve America and its democracy.

if you see anything in me that you regard as a fault, feel free to tell me in private. For from now on people will talk about me, but not to me. It is dangerous to men in power if no one dares to tell them when they go wrong.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Personally, I hope that we British continue to criticise America - just as I hope Americans will criticise us. That is what friends do.

The constructive criticism that I take very seriously is from people I know and respect, and they don't have to be musicians. But I do have to know where they're coming from.

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

I love constructive criticism.

To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation.

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.