Quotes About Criticism

When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.

Perry Farrell is so gross, and his wife looks like a monkey.

There is something about my mother that drives her critics slightly potty, so they resort to wild invention to get at her.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

While it may be tempting to bask fully in the glory of success, remember: When a CEO takes too much credit for the good, they will receive far too much criticism for the bad.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

After ten years of struggle I reached somewhere, and then I see some people pulling me down. I tell myself that if this is what singers have to go through, I would never let my kid enter this field.

When you do anything completely different from a beaten path, many tend to pounce on you.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

I think the BJP is a joke. It is a party of semi-literates and has fascist tendencies. Such a party can never have real roots in India because Hinduism is the antithesis of fascism.

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

There are people who criticise me, and that's normal because of the way I am on the pitch. I get angry, I get tense.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.

People would say I looked like a man or something called a 'buttaface', which means everything good but her face, or 'potato head' was the big term that everyone used a lot, basically making fun of the way I looked.

It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape.

For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.

There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!