Quotes About Criticism

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

When I joined films in 2002, there were all kinds of rash and unkind comments that were made about my looks in the reviews.

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

When we were unknown, you don't get a lot of bad feedback. Now, we get people bad-mouthing us all the time, but it's all part of the game.

I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The Dismembering of the Clampett Clan' or 'The Oklahoma Meatgrinder Massacre' or some such. The headaches unleashed by watching attractive kids die week after week after week cannot be imagined.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

If you're dedicated to something and you put the time in, why should anyone have an opinion on it? Halif of the people who comment about women's boxing don't even watch it.

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.

Women's football does have its knockers.

If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

We are uniting in condemning the comments of Donald Trump on Muslims and women.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.

I'm sure men have their own ways of trying to demean one another, but women can be very gossipy and judgmental, and that doesn't help.