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I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.
To say 'I quit' brings a lot of criticism, but to get disqualified and say the ref was unfair and harsh, in denial - fans will jump on that.
You learn from any criticism. You learn from any self-criticism. And you learn from when you do things the right way: you try to keep going.
A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
Having every little aspect of your life in the public eye is really hard because it leaves more room for criticism, and I just want to live.
The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.
Criticism certainly doesn't affect my life, and whatever the pundits have called me, I'm sure they have been called a lot worse in their day.
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
What I've really liked doing is combining what you might call art criticism or music criticism with something that is happening in real life.
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is supposed to last.
In our village women are left to clean the house and milk the cattle so when I first entered the ring, I had to hear the criticism of people.
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.
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.
The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.
Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.
Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.
The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising.
Criticism comes with Celtic. If you take it on board, it can make you ill, but if you think: 'No problem', it makes you really thick-skinned.
You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.
Movie criticism is very subjective and everyone has the right to voice their opinion. You go to a movie and decide whether you like it or not.
Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.
The main criticism people have of me is, 'Why are you trying so hard? This guy's exhausting.' Yeah, I am! That's my way of trying to get love.
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.
I love my voice. But I'd be the first one to make a criticism of it, so I'm not the best person to critique because I'm pretty hard on myself.
It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.
When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.
It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.
Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.
In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.
The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.
David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed.
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.