Quotes About Criticism

I know first-hand what it's like to be judged and to have someone criticise your creativity, your hard work and your art.

As the first of anything, you're going to be judged. If you accept the good, you have to accept the bad.

People were saying on social media, 'He's going out too much' - I got judged. That was demoralising.

It is quite hurtful when people make a judgement without even really watching me and saying things like, 'I'm not watching if she's on' or 'I don't like change.'

Throughout a competitive career, you can certainly lose yourself trying to please the judges.

No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing me to other artists.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

I don't know, and certainly I've been guilty of making a judgment about a celebrity, but there's a part of me that's like, 'Why don't you take the time you're spending ripping James Franco and go do something you like?'

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

We're a very judgmental society.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

Audiences can be very judgmental.

Sometimes before I go on stage, I think about how people can be so judgmental and forget they're the ones who bought your album; they're the ones that are singing along.

I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

I don't think it's good, culturally, to base all critical judgments on a single performance.

Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.

I think the fact that I'm married to Julia, people like to take shots at me.

People say I don't have a jump shot, so that's what I've been working on.

Every time you make a jump, whether it's from high school to college or college to the NBA, you're going to hear questions about your athletic ability.

It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews.

It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.