Quotes About Criticism

Anyone with a negative story to tell about her could get an instant nationwide audience.

Not the least of them is that while the West is assaulted for everything it has done wrong, it now gets no credit for having got anything right.

The criticism of The Bell Curve demonstrated why almost nobody wanted to go over the evidence that suggests that intelligence test scores vary with ethnic group and that just as some groups score higher on intelligence tests, others must score lower. This of course is not to say that everybody in such groups does. As Murray and Herrnstein were at pains to point out repeatedly, the differences within racial groups were larger than the differences between them.

Receiving feedback sits at the intersection of these two needs—our drive to learn and our longing for acceptance.

Before you tell me how to do it better, before you lay out your big plans for changing, fixing, and improving me, before you teach me how to pick myself up and dust myself off so that I can be shiny and successful—know this: I've heard it before. I've been graded, rated, and ranked. Coached, screened, and scored. I've been picked first, picked last, and not picked at all. And that was just kindergarten.

You have to have that rare combination of thick skin and a tender heart. Most writers get it backward and have a tender skin and a thick heart... Every critic, however ill-informed, represents a point of view which is likely not limited to just him... Sometimes you will disagree with your critic, but you can always gain from him.

Criticism should be received as a kindness (Ps. 141:5).

Blaming public Christians for being 'too political' is like blaming Noah's ark for being 'too wet

Fortunately, given the state of criticism these days, lots of people miss—especially the feminists, who usually throw like a girl.

Only those who are in-charge are tackled and criticized by others so criticism is something desirable and should not be resented.

Insecurity can also develop from a critical parent who focused on our weaknesses or failures or didn't feel we measured up to some unspoken standard.

A brilliant invention isn't much until some idiot calls the genius who created it an idiot.

I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that.

Ive been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.

People around you should really have nothing to say.

Martin Luther: "He who believes his doctrine to be perfectly right and true has only to lift his hands and touch his ears and discover they are the long furry ears of a donkey.

Criticizing common sense, it must be said, is a tricky business,

I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

Haters can keep on hating.

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds.

Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.

I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.