Quotes About Criticism

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

When you start to get shareholders, clients, employees, rating agencies, and everybody converging, and then your competitors bad-mouth you, you know you did the right thing.

I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like 'The Sopranos' or 'Deadwood' 'art' that they were correct.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

I think it's a fair criticism to say that we've gotten our fill of superhero films, and audiences should just have different things to choose from when they go to the theaters.

Mattis has been sharply critical of President Barack Obama's policies on Iran and Obama's capping of troop numbers and campaign end-dates in theaters of war such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Mattis also appears to be a skeptic of the Obama-era policy of putting women into combat roles.

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

When you study, as I did, every theatrical beginning in this country, none of them have been greeted well. The Royal Shakespeare Company was a disaster, Peter Hall was a disaster, Richard Eyre was a disaster, Trevor Nunn was always a disaster.

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

I hate bad reviews, so yeah, every now and then I think, 'Boy I hope everybody really likes this and thinks this theme is good.' You can't help but do that. I think we all are, or at least I am, reduced to a schoolboy seeking approval.

If I had any kind of creed in regard to living among strangers, it was this: once could criticize one's own place, indeed one had a duty to do so, but when crossing a cultural border one left behind judgements as to how life should be organized

I didn't realise you'd ridden here on your high horse

Failing fast involves egoless work. Egoless programming. Egoless operating. Egoless analysis. To remove ego, structure projects as a team effort. No solo acts. No product is any one person's "baby." Otherwise, people can't criticize a product without criticizing the person. To fail fast and learn quickly, remove ego and make everything a team effort.

Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would describe it before we criticize or condemn. Another guiding principle should be 'Do not impute to others beliefs you regard as logically entailed by their beliefs but that they explicitly deny'.

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

Too much of our society looks for people to fail.

It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since...it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into, we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a power-directed system of thought.

The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.

Pewnego dnia, gdy ojciec, pijany bardziej ni? zwykle, wbi? mi w?a?nie w czo?o gruby gwó?d? i zawiesi? na nim obraz, który o?mieli?em si? skrytykowa?, powiedzia?em sobie w duchu: "By?oby pocieszaj?ce, gdyby zjawi?a si? wró?ka i odstawi?a ten numer z trzema ?yczeniami.

The existence of autonomous individuals free to criticize was once a landmark of our civilization.

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.