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Quotes About Criticism

You criticize my temper ... unaware of the one you live with, you revile me.
~ Sophocles
I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.
~ Helen Reddy
A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.
~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.
~ Hilary Duff
There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.
~ Hillary Clinton
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.
~ Honore de Balzac
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree...and think 25 to life would be appropriate.
~ Jay Leno
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
~ Plato
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
~ Voltaire, Candide
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Programming your mind with positive thoughts each day will go a long way to keep you from allowing external criticism to derail your dreams.
~ Ken Poirot
When people keep TALKING about you, don't waste time listening to what they say, keep WORKING on what you dream about.
~ Nabil TOUSSI
If they criticise you before they cheer you on, they are not your people. Simple.
~ Nikki Rowe
I felt like some part of my soul was ripped out and put under a microscope for criticizing.
~ Alysha Speer
Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it.
~ Solange nicole
But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.
~ Eric Wright
I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.
~ Albert Camus
Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.
~ John Milton
he hated the phony patriots, the goddamn goose-stepping flag-waving patriots, who really loved the status quo more than they loved the country and its promises unfulfilled.
~ John Oliver Killens
George Devine's disapproval of Fry, Ustinov and John Whiting was almost startling in its bitterness: 'They're all absolute shit.' It was a little breathtaking. I was only accustomed to this kind of throw-away vehemence from myself.
~ John Osborne
In my job, nobody ever says a word when you do something right, but make one mistake?
~ John R. Erickson
God, I hate judgmental people. They're so mean...and fat.
~ John R. Lindensmith
Criticism is perhaps the citizen's primary weapon in the exercise of her legitimacy. That is why, in the corporatist society, conformism, loyalty and silence are so admired and rewarded; why criticism is so punished or marginalized. Who has not experienced this conflict?
~ John Ralston Saul