Quotes About Criticism

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.

If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.