Quotes About Criticism

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

I don't hate America. I love America. I want it to be better. The only way we can get it to be better is to realistically criticize what's wrong with it.

People want the truth but they only want the truth so they can talk bad about you on the blog or on television. They want you to tell them the truth and it screws everybody.

I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because people are brutal. I never want my kids to feel like they have to live up to what I've done.

Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves.

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.

People want to criticize everything you do. People criticize Pacquiao, Mayweather or Obama, everyone that is at the top of their game.

We have a president[Barack Obama] who doesn't have a clue. I would say he's incompetent, but I don't want to do that because that's not nice.

Hillary Clinton wants to double-down on Obamacare and make it even worse.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

I am no critic. Merely a humble observer who, when able, speaks on behalf of the tongue-tied multitudes otherwise known as the commonalty, or, more precisely, the rabble. An audience, understand, wholly incapable of self-realization or cogent articulation, and thus possessors of depressingly vulgar tastes when not apprised of what they truly like, if only they knew it. My meagre gift, therefore, lies in the communication of an aesthetic framework upon which most artists hang themselves

If all honest observation ends up sounding critical, is it the honesty you then reject, or the act of observation?

It is not for you to judge – yet how often is it that those in no position to judge are the first to do so, and with such fire and venom?

For those who care deeply about Zen and its place in Japan and the world, the challenge is to help define Zen's role creatively lest the tradition get buried under the avalanche of criticism.

Jesus Christ did not come to earth to start a new religion. In fact, He leveled His harshest criticisms at the religious leaders of His day. He accused them of not knowing God and said they had used religion to bind people to a life of misery, frustration, and failure. He claimed they were blind and had blinded the "spiritual eyes" of their followers (see Matthew 15:13-14; 23:13-24).

I hated the royal wedding.

The majority of people were possessive of their theologies, and strongly resented disbelief and criticism from others.

The internet can be many things, of course. Too often it's a cesspool of distraction, a place we indulge in the modern sport of snark and schandenfrende, building the case for our own bigotries, where we mock and thereby dismiss the suggering of others.

I must admit that, either from temperament or taste, or from both, I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticised from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate;

However, if criticism and humility aren't balanced with appreciation for things we do well and our willingness to learn, we can become critical, judgmental, and stress-filled.

The tyranny of Venus is felt whenever a woman thinks—or whenever a man thinks and tells a woman—that her hips are too wide, her thighs are too large, her breasts are too small, her waist is too high, her legs are too short to meet the current erotic standard.