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Quotes About Criticism

Sorry son of a bitch. No wonder some people criticized small-town law enforcement
~ Rita Herron
Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?
~ Rita Rudner
Philosophy started as Criticism of religious beliefs. By seeking logical reasons for the things in nature, mankind created the Science of philosophy…*
~ Rius
Disassociate with people that criticize you. Avoid them at all costs and act indifferent in their presence. At some point they may ask you what's wrong, and you need to speak the truth.
~ RJ Intindola
Small minded people rarely have any ideas, just a litany of complaints.
~ RJ Intindola
If there's one thing that really spoils [fill in blank with anything good], it's OTHER PEOPLE.
~ Rob Reger
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.
~ Rob Sheffield
year's show had been heavy with shooting acts, but, in fact, despite Nate Salsbury's criticisms of the Cody-Carver ensemble, the program wasn't much changed. The buffalo chase had replaced the unfortunate attempt to ride buffalo. The reviewer for the Spirit of the Times wrote: "The only artistic interest in the show is that it seems to
~ Robert A. Carter
A "critic" is a man who creates nothing ...
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I find that I have been scribbling away for nearly an hour. Miss Gisborne keeps on saying that I am too prone to the insertion of unnecessary hyphens, and that it is a weakness. If a weakness it is, I intend to cherish it.
~ Robert Aickman
The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.
~ Robert Aitken
I've been in this business long enough to have acclaim and disclaim, and to know the acclaim means no more than the disclaim.
~ Robert Altman
Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people like that.
~ Robert Altman
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
~ Robert Benchley
The characterization of entire groups as victims has underwritten the conviction that such groups may never be subjected to criticism of any kind.
~ Robert Boyers
Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.
~ Robert Brault
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.
~ Robert Brault
Everyone in a codependent society has to have someone to look down upon in order to feel good about themselves.
~ Robert Burney
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
~ Robert Burns
Societies progress by the free assertion of differing proposals, followed by criticism, followed by the genuine possibility of change in the light of criticism....The whole approach of an authoritarian society is anti-rational. A rational and scientific approach requires societies to be open and pluralistic."—Karl Popper
~ Robert Carroll
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
~ Robert Charles Benchley
Moralizers who try to separate themselves and denounce the narcissists in the world today are often the biggest narcissists of them all - they love the sound of their voice as they point fingers and preach.
~ Robert Greene
Envy occurs most commonly and painfully among friends. We assume that something in the course of the relationship caused the friend to turn against us. Sometimes all we experience is the betrayal, the sabotage, the ugly criticisms they throw at us, and we never understand the underlying envy that inspired these actions. What we need to grasp is something paradoxical: people who feel envy in the first place are often motivated to become our friends.
~ Robert Greene