Quotes About Critics

Whatever your critics say about you has no bearing on your worth. You are a child of the Most High God. The Creator of the universe breathed life into you. You have seeds of greatness on the inside. You've been crowned with favor. God has already equipped and empowered you with everything you need. Don't waste your valuable time trying to play up to people, trying to win over all your critics, or trying to prove to someone that you're important.

Where you're going, there will be opposition: critics and people that try to pull you down. The good news is no weapon formed against you will prosper. They can't stop you.

After all God doesn't want you to be an imitation of someone else. You should be the original you were created to be. There is an anointing on your life, an empowerment. Not to be somebody else, but to be you. If you let people squeeze you into their molds and you bow down to their pressure to try to please your critics, it not only takes away your uniqueness, but it also lessens the favor on your life.

You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to prove yourself to them. Just stay on the high road and let God fight your battles for you. Some who will cross your path simply don't want peace with you. No matter what you say or do, they will not be won over. Even if you were to change, they would still find some reason to be critical. You have to accept the fact that no matter what you do, some people will never be at peace with you.

Keep honoring God, being your best, and God will cause the people you need to be for you. He'll take care of your critics. When it's the right time, just like He closed the mouths of hungry lions, He'll close the mouths of those trying to discredit you.

If you're going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you're going to have big challenges.

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions.

You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the case.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

Name me a person in public life who doesn't have critics. Especially women in public life.

I've published a couple of short novels in France that I didn't want to publish in English because I loved the characters too much to subject them to American critics who were not exactly favorable toward my work.

The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

I'm being invaded by fashion pundits.

I tend not to listen to pundits.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.

Many critics of capitalism have argued that the maintenance of a surplus of unemployed workers is not simply a by-product of market fluidity but a deliberately contrived condition, designed to ease the flow of labor and to lessen the bargaining power of workers in market transactions.

The eternal raison d'etre of America is in its being the sweet land of liberty. Should a land so dreamed into existence, so degenerate through material prosperity as to become what its European critics, with too much justice, have scornfully renamed it the Land of the Dollar - such a development will be one of the sorriest conclusions of history, and the most colossal disillusionment that has ever happened to mankind.