Quotes About Criticism

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?

If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!

It's about time we start criticizing faith.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me

Picking out Vince Russo's faults could be a full-time job for somebody.

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

That's harsh.

I can conceive few situations more harassing than that wherein, however you may long for success, however you may labour to fulfil your duty, your efforts are baffled and set at nought by those beneath you, and unjustly censured and misjudged by those above.

animadversions

Am I really so bad-mannered, conceited, headstrong, pushing, stupid, lazy, etc., etc., as they all say? Oh, of course not. I have my faults, just like everyone else, I kniw that, but they thoroughly exaggerate everything.

I have my faults, just like everyone else, I know that, but they thoroughly exaggerate everything.

Mother thinks that Mrs. van D. is too stupid for words, Margot that she's too unimportant, Pim that she's too ugly (literally and figuratively!), and after long observation (I'm never prejudiced at the beginning), I've come to the conclusion that she's all three of the above, and lots more besides. She has so many bad traits, why should I single out just one of them? PS. Will the reader please take into consideration that this story was written before the writter's fury had cooled?

The author of this book ciritcizes the youth of today from top to toe, without, however, condemning the whole of the young brigade as incapable of anything good.

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Get it all down. Let it pour out...