Quotes About Criticism

very bad indeed. Defoe never acquired a really good style, and can in no true sense be called a master of the English tongue. Nature had gifted Defoe with untiring energy, a keen taste for public affairs

apunta: «Los ataques al carácter de alguien (llamarlo estúpido o incompetente) no sirven para nada. El otro se pone de inmediato a la defensiva y deja de ser receptivo a las recomendaciones que tenemos que hacerle para que mejore.»

Una de las características principales de la autoconciencia es un sentido del humor autocrítico.

A character attack—calling someone stupid or incompetent misses the point. You immediately put him on the defensive, so that he's no longer receptive to what you have to tell him about how to do things better.

Who can I complain to, if I don't like the shape of the globe?

You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what's going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.

I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.

Facebook needs three buttons, "Like", "Dislike" and "Stop being stupid."

"The more people love you, the more there's going to be people that hate you."

You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment.

Let go of relationships that do not serve you. That means negative people, dishonest people, people who don't respect you, people who are overly critical and relationships that prevent you from growing. You can't grow as a person, if you don't have people in your life who want to grow with you.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?

Scared for health, afraid of death, bored, dissatisfied, vengeful, greedy, ignorant, and gullible—these are the qualities of the ideal consumer. Can we imagine a way of education that would turn passive consumers into active and informed critics, capable of using their own minds in their own defense?

the modern world abounds with heralds of a better future and with debunkers happy to point out that Yeats was silly like us or that Thomas Jefferson may have had a Negro slave as a mistress--and so we are disencumbered of the burden of great lives, set free to be as cynical or desperate as we please.

We bring these delightful creatures into the world—eagerly, happily—and then before long they are spying upon and judging us, rarely favourably. Having children is our fondest wish but, in doing so, we breed our acutest critics. It is a preposterous situation—but entirely of our own making.