If You Are Not Criticized, You May Not Be Doing Much.
- Donald H. Rumsfeld
Criticism Comes Easier Than Craftsmanship.
- Zeuxis
To Avoid Criticism Do Nothing, Say Nothing, Be Nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
One Cannot Review A Bad Book Without Showing Off.
- W. H. Auden
How Much Easier It Is To Be Critical Than To Be Correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Do What You Feel In Your Heart To Be Right – For You’ll Be Criticized Anyway. You’ll Be Damned If You Do, And Damned If You Don’t.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Against Criticism A Man Can Neither Protest Nor Defend Himself; He Must Act In Spite Of It, And Then It Will Gradually Yield To Him.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I Never Met Anybody Who Said When They Were A Kid, I Wanna Grow Up And Be A Critic.
- Richard Pryor
Never Criticize A Man Until You’ve Walked A Mile In His Moccasins.
- Native American Proverb
Honest Criticism Is Hard To Take, Particularly From A Relative, A Friend, An Acquaintance, Or A Stranger.
- Franklin P. Jones
Asking A Working Writer What He Thinks About Critics Is Like Asking A Lamppost How It Feels About Dogs.
- Christopher Hampton
No Degree Of Dullness Can Safeguard A Work Against The Determination Of Critics To Find It Fascinating.
- Harold Rosenberg
Pay No Attention To What The Critics Say… Remember, A Statue Has Never Been Set Up In Honor Of A Critic!
- Jean Sibelius
People Ask For Criticism, But They Only Want Praise.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Now, In Reality, The World Have Paid Too Great A Compliment To Critics, And Have Imagined Them To Be Men Of Much Greater Profundity Than They Really Are.
- Henry Fielding
After All, One Knows One’s Weak Points So Well, That It’s Rather Bewildering To Have The Critics Overlook Them And Invent Others.
- Edith Wharton
Any Fool Can Criticize, Condemn, And Complain – And Most Fools Do.
- Dale Carnegie
Any Reviewer Who Expresses Rage And Loathing For A Novel Is Preposterous. He Or She Is Like A Person Who Has Put On Full Armor And Attacked A Hot Fudge Sundae.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The bad plowman quarrels with his ox.
- Korean
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