Quotes About Criticism

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Fact is, I won popularity with my first film itself. Since I got acclaim very early in my career, people weren't that critical of me.

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice. I mean, it's a pretty evenhanded loathing among a certain amount of the critical population, which used to be about 80 percent. So now I've gotten to the point where I just don't worry about it that much. It used to be very upsetting, now it's only mildly upsetting.

I'm willing to take criticism all day long from Fox News. But I'm not willing to accept criticism from Fox News of the men and women of the Portland Police Bureau.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism.

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

In criticizing an ideology, one cannot be racist, hateful, or bigoted. These descriptors apply to positions held against people and not ideologies.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

For the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who's made one negative comment about me, I've probably gotten 250-300 positive comments.

When I first started working out and losing weight, I did get some people saying that 'oh you're not a body positive person anymore.' And I feel like I didn't really understand where they were coming from.

There's always going to be people saying negative and positive things. If you let all that into you, and you're always contemplating that and thinking about that, I'm sure that can get to you. I try not to do that.

I take criticism very positively if it's genuine.

I take criticism positively, and I keep trying to develop as an actor.

Criticism is natural; it's just that you have to deal with it positively and use it to improve.