Quotes About Criticism

What happens too often when we criticize someone is that we accompany it with strong, negative feelings. We criticize without ever mentioning how many other things we appreciate about our spouse.

Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize–winning economist who was the pope of the neoliberal right, and a leading critic of the drug war.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever be decried by the world as drunken or insane.

It is such an agreeable feeling to be busy with something one is only half-competent to do that nobody should criticize the dilettante for taking up an art he will never learn, or blame the artist who leaves the territory of his own art for the pleasure of trying himself in a neighbouring one.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.

Criticism is a life without risk.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

Don't go see the movies, I'm a troll. I think the movie was great, but their biggest mistake was me.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

My weight and my pant size are the absolute last thing I'm concerned about. People who talk and judge pregnant women's weight need to get a life!

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

Acting is a life of rejection.