“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
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Minister critical of delays in Airport Rail construction (2013)
“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XIII
“Faith is not something that you can cultivate”
The Asian Age, 22 February 2009
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Context: Faith is not something that you can cultivate. If it happens to you, it happens, if it doesn't happen to you it doesn't happen, that's all. Does it mean to say - "I have to just sit and wait and someday it will fall upon me?" No, it is just that if you understand the fundamentals of living here, in this existence, you will see, for anything to happen, you must create the right kind of situation.
“It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.”
Rufus Wilmot Griswold, as quoted in Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862) by Christian Nestell Bovee, p. 132.
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“It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.”
Quoting Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), p. 132.
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“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”