Quotes About Criticism

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There's nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.

Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism

I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out ALL your faults.

I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.

'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.

John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.

My mother says I have boring percussion.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.