The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It takes humility to ask a question about your performance. And even more humility to consider the answer. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room.… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism. — Boonaa Mohammed Copy Share Image
England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk. I don't… — John Garfield Copy Share Image
If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In any job, you can come under attack or have a door slammed in your face. You do want to listen to… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Valid criticism is something that we are open for, and we take it in the spirit in which it is given and… — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
I accept that everyone is entitled to his opinion and as a coach, I don't run away from criticism. — Ronald Koeman Copy Share Image
The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning. — Richard King Copy Share Image
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature.… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
[it] may have hastened his move to the private sector because there was such an outpouring of bitter criticism...The result, if this… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image