Quotes About Criticism

Half the people tell me, 'I love 'Go All the Way,' but why do you have to write all those schlocky ballads.' And half say, 'I love 'All By Myself,' but why do you waste your time with this rock 'n' roll stuff?' I'd like to think that I could do both.

At aged eleven, you're learning taking criticism every day and making it a positive thing - otherwise you will never make it in ballet.

Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

This is a huge club, everyone is interested in what's happening in Barcelona, you lose one game and you are criticised a lot, then in seven days' time you win and everyone loves you again.

I don't bash people in the media, like other people.

You don't go to some other country and bash our president.

I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed.

If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.

There's a lot of people that think I'm a terrible basketball player, so it's just gonna piss me off. And if it's people who think I'm good, I'll be happy. I'm just not gonna read it at all and stay content in my own mind.

In my profession, people are never scared to be nice. They are in fact apprehensive about being critical.

If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.

I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault.

I would say this: no matter what style you play, at some point, the team that beats you, people are going to say, 'I guess your style doesn't work.'

I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.

My advice gets misconstrued as being mean.

If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.

That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

But at some point in my midtwenties I abandoned my boyhood fantasy of climbing Everest. By then it had become fashionable among alpine cognoscenti to denigrate Everest as a "slag heap"—a peak lacking sufficient technical challenges or aesthetic appeal to be a worthy objective for a "serious" climber, which I desperately aspired to be. I began to look down my nose at the world's highest mountain.

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency

All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic criticism.

this injunction of TR's remains resonant: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States, it argued that Adams did "not possess the talents adapted to the administration of government," and that "there are great intrinsic defects in his character which unfit him for the office

The Memphis Commercial Appeal said, "President Roosevelt has committed a blunder that is worse than a crime, and no atonement or future act of his can remove the self-imprinted stigma." Alabama's Geneva Reaper was especially harsh. "Poor Roosevelt!" the paper wrote. "He might now just as well sleep with Booker Washington, for the scent of that coon will follow him to the grave as far as the South is concerned.