Quotes About Criticism

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it's better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it's hard to keep going.

If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.

You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don't get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it.

In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.

There are no guarantees in the music field. There's a lot of rejection, a lot of criticism and a lot of disappointment. You have to be prepared for that. And after 1973, it just wasn't happening for me.

I've seen every bad or mean comment related to what I do for a living, and I'm used to it.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

I have been fascinated by Dickens worshippers who strenuously deny that he did anything wrong in relation to his wife, even though the record is clear that he did.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Anytime you have a relative in politics, you're going to catch some flack from people, because that's just part of the gig.

Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.

Not only in our family, where our relatives keep putting us down, but even in this modern urbanized culture, we girls put our fellow girls down by judging them.

If I have written anything, a person will comment using abusive language if they feel it's wrong. Why can't you relax and write properly.

Whenever a film has three different release dates, people understandably assume that there must be something wrong with it.

I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started.

People say I'm destroying hip-hop, and I'm like, there's so much hip-hop, and it's so popular, so I don't know why I have the power to destroy it.

I might defend the reviewing trade, but a handful of haughty hired hands no longer having the last word on books is not a bad thing.

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they have every reason to criticize her, to see only the darkest historical aspects.

There is not one particular moment that can account for the shift from the social issue concerns of 19th-century evangelicals into the state of American evangelicalism today. Some historical moments are telling. The rise of biblical criticism in the 19th century forced evangelicals to make choices about what they believed about the gospel.

'Singham' was one-and-a-half stars all over, and it was one of the biggest hits of my career. It gave me so much respect. People think if it's not critically acclaimed, you won't get respect. But that's not true. Even if you get one star, your film will do well if the audience wants to see it.