Quotes About Criticism

I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.

Some of the journalists who've ended up writing about our band - and this is disappointing to say - have a very narrow outlook. And because of that they fundamentally misunderstand us.

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.

I think some star kids have it even harder than outsiders, because the pressure is too much.

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'

If there's a criticism of 'Cassadaga' that I agreed with, it's that we left things in the oven too long, that songs were overstuffed, with too many ideas competing for space.

I have been hated by the whole world and it's been something to definitely overcome.

I'm a person who takes criticism personally and that had put doubts in my mind about doing a film. I tried to overcome it and give acting a shot.

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

There are a lot of people who are overly judgemental on the Internet.

I went from absolutely nothing to a lot of people judging me overnight, and it was really tough for me.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

I think Matt Ryan's overrated.

Seth Meyers is highly overrated as a comedian.

I think I'm overrated as a recruiter.

I think I'm overrated as a director!

Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas.

NSA is a very conservative culture legally. Our lawyers at NSA were notorious for their conservatism up through the morning of September 11th, 2001. The single most consistent criticism of the NSA legal office by our congressional oversight committee was that our legal office was too conservative.

When I see someone deride things that women and girls find pleasure in, all I see is someone fearful that women will overtake the culture they've had dominion over for so long.

For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

Some of the best advice I ever received was "Man, that was terrible".

All religions are a scam . . . except for yours of course.

The Greater a person is the more they will be hated.

You hear preachers say that the prosperity gospel doesn't work but I say that it's worked for the preachers who preach it.