Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their ploughing of the soil. The muscles of the horse are as taut as fiddle-strings and suddenly a horse-fly alights on its croup buzzing and stinging. The horses skin quivers it waves its tail. What is the fly buzzing about? It probably doesnt know itself. It simply has a restless nature and wants to make itself felt Im alive too you know! it seems to say. Look I know how to buzz theres nothing I cant buzz about! Ive been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years and cant remember a single useful point in any of them or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.
Careless of censure nor too fond of fame Still pleased to praise yet not afraid to blame Averse alike to flatter or offend Not free from faults nor yet too vain to mend.
The real aim of criticism is not the destruction of cherished traditions although a due regard for the facts does often compel us to revise older opinions but a fuller appreciation of the beauty and truth of the creative work on which it fixes its regard. The word criticism is derived from the Greek word kritikos which means the ability to select or discriminate hence to decide or judge. The meaning of criticism is thus discriminating judgment.
Watson himself said that when he was able to develop loyalty in men ability followed. Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones he declared. Criticism if necessary at all was permitted only to superiors.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Self criticism must be my guide to action and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue only a procedure.
CAVILER n. A critic of our own work.
Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their ploughing of the soil. The muscles of the horse are as taut as fiddle-strings and suddenly a horse-fly alights on its croup buzzing and stinging. The horses skin quivers it waves its tail. What is the fly buzzing about? It probably doesnt know itself. It simply has a restless nature and wants to make itself felt Im alive too you know! it seems to say. Look I know how to buzz theres nothing I cant buzz about! Ive been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years and cant remember a single useful point in any of them or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.
Careless of censure nor too fond of fame Still pleased to praise yet not afraid to blame Averse alike to flatter or offend Not free from faults nor yet too vain to mend.
The real aim of criticism is not the destruction of cherished traditions although a due regard for the facts does often compel us to revise older opinions but a fuller appreciation of the beauty and truth of the creative work on which it fixes its regard. The word criticism is derived from the Greek word kritikos which means the ability to select or discriminate hence to decide or judge. The meaning of criticism is thus discriminating judgment.
Watson himself said that when he was able to develop loyalty in men ability followed. Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones he declared. Criticism if necessary at all was permitted only to superiors.