Quotes About Criticism

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

Republicans are now trying to stop Donald Trump. And there was much more ferocious and widespread criticism from Republicans of Trump this time around.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

I always feel I have to take a stand, And there's always someone on hand To hate me for standing there. I always feel I have to open my mouth, And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.

The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

You're always going to face a little bit of criticism from time to time.

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

Personally, we could call her 'Garbage O'Hara' for all I care. – in response to editor & friend Lois Cole's criticism of the name Scarlett O'Hara while Gone with the Wind was in its final stages before publication.

the miraculous power of love to create a context in which people naturally blossom into their highest potential.  Neither nagging, trying to get people to change, criticizing or fixing can do that.

Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain.

We are culturally predisposed to sheltering criticism from criticism; we have enshrined the iconoclast

It is clearly true that the reflex of disparagement is no more compatible with rigorous inquiry than the impulse to glorify.