Quotes About Criticism

Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.

In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.

I'm a woman, and I see women get put through an awful lot of grief and be subjected to the kind of criticism, remarks, and suggestions that no woman should ever have to tolerate. And I think we should be helping each other and supporting each other.

I am a human being and the bashing has taken its toll.

Even when every Tom, Dick and Harry was calling for my head, I still felt I could get better at being captain.

I'm too busy being the bad guy." It was one of those things that get said in a marriage, something that starts out as a genuine compliment but turns into a criticism without either party noticing or caring all that much.

If I don't read at least one bad thing about myself every day I take a long look at my behaviour and try harder to be shocking.

There, don't you think I'm always a-fault-finding! When I get hold of the real thing in folks, I stick to 'em,—but there's an awful sight of poor material walking about that ain't worth the ground it steps on.

Traumatized behavior and Supremacy ideology resemble each other [and] ...produce distorted thinking that seeks unreasonable levels of control over other people and does not tolerate self-criticism or difference.

TRUST AND THANKFULNESS WILL get you safely through this day. Trust protects you from worrying and obsessing. Thankfulness keeps you from criticizing and complaining: those "sister sins" that so easily entangle you.

TRUST AND THANKFULNESS WILL get you safely through this day. Trust protects you from worrying and obsessing. Thankfulness keeps you from criticizing and complaining:

What she lacks in poetry she makes up for in venom

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

It is far too easy to be critical. It is far harder to have a better idea.

Flannery O'Connor—it's right, but it ain't right enough.

It is one thing to be judgmental; it is entirely different to say greed is wrong or that sexual sins are wrong, and saying so is not judgmentalism.

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

As a rule, if you insist on speaking your mind, you will inevitably find yourself somewhere where everyone hates you.

In sum, The Green Berets was a reasonable commercial success, but a critical disaster that convinced most of the moviegoing audience under the age of thirty never to see a John Wayne movie.

If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken.

sometimes we love what we wrote, critics hate it. Sometimes we hate what we wrote, critics love it.

It must be so easy to judge the decisions of someone else when you sit back and do nothing.

Convenient targets include our "pointy-haired bosses" whom we believe are barely competent enough to tie their own shoes, the "paper-pushing fools" in the department down the hall from us that demand excessive amounts of documentation, and our "stupid users" who often don't know what they want, and when they do tell us what they want, it never makes sense anyway. Naturally, we never blame ourselves; we're perfect after all.