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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977] — John Osborne

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others. — Daniel Gilbert

I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this. — Jim Gaffigan

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about. — Darryl Pinckney

There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies. — Rebecca MacKinnon

I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people. — Lee Scott

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself. — George H. W. Bush

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord. — Henry Allen Ironside

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism. — Rachel Ward

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe

All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench. — Baltasar Garzon

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag. — Criss Jami

The great thing about making yourself the villain is nobody's likely to contradict you. — Peter Watts

I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face. — Ogden Nash

Where people are not present, talking about them is either lie or ridiculous. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say. — Napoleon Hill

Why did the best answers to unfounded criticism always come to a person while stewing about the situation afterward? — Laura Lee Guhrke

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way. — Alex Kapranos

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. — Dennis Potter

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. — Richard Linklater

Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that . — Diana Ross

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets. — Wilfrid Sheed

Those who thus seek to screen an idol from criticism only betray their own suspicions about the worthiness of the totem they worship. — Robert M. Price

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on. — Paula Abdul

CUSTOMER (to her friend): What's this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain about other books? — Jen Campbell

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them. — Douglas MacArthur

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it. — Criss Jami

When people (talk trash) about you, you have to keep it moving, keep the records hot and keep your head up. — Ashanti

I don't expect people to feel sorry for me. My teammates get more upset about the criticism and booing than I do. — Alex Rodriguez

I will accept comments and criticism about change. — Jimmy Haslam

If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me — Miguel El Portugues

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire. — Ezra Pound

I wish theater criticism in this country could be more of a companion piece to the experience than a warning about where not to spend your money. — Anna D. Shapiro

We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination — Sunday Adelaja

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors. — Beverley Mitchell

The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family. — David Beckham

Respond to others about your work with equanimity. — Joshua L. Goldberg

Listen and learn from others' criticism.It will tell you as much about you as it will about them. — Carol Vorvain

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this. — Randall Jarrell

We all have our weak moments when we believe the worst things we think about ourselves. — Marty Rubin

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing. — Neil Patrick Harris

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

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. — Andy Warhol

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it. — Jack Nicholson

It does not matter whatsoever, what the people around you think you can or cannot do. What really matters is what you think about your capabilities. — Abhijit Naskar

And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism. — Stephen King

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise. — Idries Shah

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop. — Greg Carlson

The greater self-confidence an individual possesses, the less inclined he is to put down others. This says a lot about those who constantly belittle. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. — George Steiner