Quotes About Criticism

For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.

All my life in professional baseball, people said 'He could be better.'

Coming out of college that's all people kept saying was I couldn't shoot. I shot probably 30-something percent from 3 so they were pretty much on top of that.

The media do not analyse the game. They analyse the result.

There's nothing better than getting announced you're doing a job, people slating you, then you do a job and having people go 'he's actually all right.'

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

Anytime you struggle, people are always going to say something.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

Apparently, the things I do outside of the football are not taken as positives. I don't care, but sometimes it amazes me.

There will always be some films that the audience would like and some that they don't. But if I start becoming a slave to appreciation, I will be subjecting myself and my talent to one particular type of taste. I don't want to do that.

I certainly don't approve of American actors who go to Europe and run down Hollywood.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

If I read an article and believed everything a guy said about me, I'd believe I was the best person in the world or the worst person in the world, so I can't go off what some guy says about me. I only go off what happens to me.

the proofs being more or less like us according to a distribution of shading which is so nearly imperceptible that our reputation depends (barring the calumnies of friends and the witticisms of newspapers) on the balance struck by our criticisers between Truth that limps and Falsehood to which Parisian wit gives wings.

Quand tu auras envie de critiquer quelqu'un, songe que tout le monde n'a pas joui des mêmes avantages que toi.

In the first place, my child, from what you have yourself told me, it is clear that the one unpardonable sin in society is to be happy.

It might have been supposed that, like a princess in the Arabian Nights, Emilie was rich enough and beautiful enough to choose from among all the princes in the world. Her objections were each more preposterous than the last: one had too thick knees and was bow-legged, another was short-sighted, this one's name was Durand, that one limped, and almost all were too fat.

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, edited by Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970)

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

To Coach Brantford, I could do almost nothing right. He told me that I didn't play tough enough, I didn't hit anybody and that my skating and passing needed a lot of work. If you came to a practice or a game, you'd have never known that I scored 25 goals & had 39 assists what with Coach Brantford always harping on me about something I was doing wrong.

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.