Quotes About Criticism

The unpalatable words that the people say to a person should not matter to him only when he is morally right, otherwise a lot.

There are two groups of people who often talk about politics. One who has a political mind to think nothing but only about oneself & others who find nothing good to do but to spend time in idle gossips.

There is a big battalion of people always ready to prove the right points as wrong, so how a person can remain morally strong and for how long.

When a fox gives the sermon, the wolves are largely there in the congregation to offer him a fake appreciation on his oration and quotation, but later on that audience only makes a big fun of him in his absence.

When a person fails in his endeavour, practically everyone around him tells only what he lacks and many may even point out his strength as weakness; but if he succeeds or excels, then most of those people find even his greatest blunder as splendour.

When a person is truly good, most people hate only to his face but behind him appreciate; if one is not good but has a lot of money, then others openly praise on his face but irascibly criticize him on his back.

When audiences rejected Ace in the Hole, Wilder said: "F*** them all. It's the best picture I ever made.

I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing

Ein Rezensent kommt mir manchmal vor wie der Mann, der eine Wolke beobachtet und ihr übelnimmt, daß sie nicht die Gestalt des Kamels angenommen hat, das er jeden Tag im Spiegel sieht.

Dichter: erhältst Du den Beifall des Volkes, so frage Dich: was habe ich schlecht gemacht?! Erhält ihn auch Dein zweites Buch, so wirf die Feder fort...

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played.

For three months after the United States declared war on Germany the Masses kept on assailing the jingoists, the profiteers, and the capitalists who caused the beating and deportation of strikers, the Post Office censorship, and other evils which had been loosed in the campaign to silence all critics of the war administration.

Of all the criticisms levelled at Stephen Harper by his critics, the most puzzling, at least to anyone who has covered Washington, is that he behaves more like a president than a prime minister.

Generally speaking, I think one has to take reviews with a grain of salt, unless you know who the person is and what their qualifications are.

Sometimes I go home, put the game on, and think, 'How can I miss that?' It affects you; it also affects you to know your career also depends on the opinion of journalists, fans, directors, and sometimes they're not really qualified to judge.

I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane of my life.

'Basic Black with Pearls', upon its publication in 1980, was greeted with a mix of praise and misunderstanding. Critics sensed its daring and applauded its formal inventiveness, but those qualities also kept people at bay.

People will bemoan the quality of horror but then they'll go out and support horror films that are lacking qualities that they say they want.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

I know I've got a lot of flaws as a quarterback.

There are times when the criticism is something you deserve as a quarterback, and there are times when the people doing the criticizing don't know what they're talking about.

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.