Quotes About Criticism

When you lose at Texas, you're going to be bashed. I accept it.

The one text that most changed my opinion on criticism was probably Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams,' which I read in college.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

I always say, when you're onstage you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's okay. Thank God the majority are in my corner.

It was so important to have stuff outside of rugby so you have a life balance. I took a lot of criticism for that earlier in my career and thank God I ignored what everyone else said and did what I was always going to do.

If someone praises me for my acting, all I say is thanks and in case of criticism, I do apologize.

Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.

By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.

One of the things I've learned from 'Borgen' is that it's very easy to criticise people; 'I hate this politician, I hate what they do.' You are doing this right now with Margaret Thatcher, but sometimes it's hard to be a politician. I'm not defending Margaret Thatcher, but we believe our statesmen are also human beings.

I have been very successful in handling people who hurl abuse simply by being patient. Ignoring them is the best policy because afterwards, it's the fans that criticise these so-called celebrities for their bad conduct.

The hardest thing in the world is to write something critical about someone and then show up the next day in the locker room. I mean, that is not fun, and that takes an awful lot of guts. And I never enjoyed that.

That's sometimes the hardest thing to do as a professional athlete, because when you get lit up, you wear it, especially as a starting pitcher.

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State.

I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.

The one thing I can tell you is that I can't stand the English press, who cause me enormous problems on a personal level.

The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.

You've got to have positives and negatives about you. I think that's a good negative, that the only thing they could say about me is my size.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

The problem with people is that no matter how good you are at what you do, it's never enough for them. There will always be someone to point out some flaw. Someone will always find something lacking in you.