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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
You just have to learn to live with the criticism even if it is unfair. It is a fact of life.
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.
I like people to come back and tell me what I did wrong. That's the kindest thing you can do.
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.
Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
Guys like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, they'll take bad criticism in a good way.
Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.
Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists.
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
George W. Bush will not offer one word of criticism for any president. Not Clinton. Not Obama.
Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
We have to be cultured in our criticism of a tall leader like our Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
Criticism is natural; it's just that you have to deal with it positively and use it to improve.
Criticism is part of football. Everybody gets it at some point. I have had it, most players do.
And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart.
There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.
Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise
I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
I've got a lot to prove because of the criticism over my weight and moving back down a division.
We can be so hard on ourselves. And other people can, too - there's so much criticism out there!
I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.
Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.
In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.
I will take every constructive criticism, make it my own, learn from my mistake, and go forward.
One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'
I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability.