Quotes About Criticism

Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.

I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in

People call me fat, but I don't care. I don't want to starve myself cause I am beautiful the way I am.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

we all tend to criticize in others what we are most insecure about in ourselves.

In China," he said, "we can criticize Darwin, but not the government. In America, you can criticize the government, but not Darwin.

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

In effect, then, Beethoven became a musical seer. Like the mystical rishis of ancient India, he perceived aspects of reality that were beyond the perceptual range of ordinary people. Very few of his contemporaries could understand the musical leaps he had made. And of course, not seeing the genius of his refined perception, his critics called him "mad.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Most people with new ideas are ridiculed … until they succeed!

Musicals continue to be the only art form, popular or otherwise, that is publically criticized by illiterates.

It is as easy to criticize other countries than ours as it is to find fault with other people than ourselves and both usually come from a lack of understanding. If we are looking for defects we are nearly certain to find them, while if we observe others with the purpose of learning and adapting for ourselves what is good in their lives and ways we gain much. -Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Farm Home; July 20, 1920 /

The Bible has been interpreted to justify such evil practices as, for example, slavery, the slaughter of prisoners of war, the sadistic murders of women believed to be witches, capital punishment for hundreds of offenses, polygamy, and cruelty to animals. It has been used to encourage belief in the grossest superstition and to discourage the free teaching of scientific truths. We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

I'm going to get hammered away for asking these questions. Fine. Hammer away. But don't pretend that's the same as answering.