It is important to learn how to take criticism seriously, but not personally. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what people think or say about you... what's matters is what you say and think about yourself. — Ricardo Housham Copy Share Image
“Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My toughest criticism usually comes from myself. As my editor can attest to, I'm never done tweaking a book until the production… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Criticism certainly doesn't affect my life, and whatever the pundits have called me, I'm sure they have been called a lot worse… — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
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… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Let's realise that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let's realise that the person we are going to correct… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I've always been terribly uninterested in criticism. And one of the reasons, I just thought recently, is that you know there are… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to… — Bryan Robson Copy Share Image
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
If a woman wants to succeed in the public arena, she needs to grow skin as thick as the hide of a… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I am subject to constant criticism all day long,” the president told me in our Oval Office discussion. “And some of it… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“I stared at her. "But she drugged us." "That is no longer news, dumbass. Are you going to ask why she drugged… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“One genuine criticism is more precious than a thousand false praises!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
If appreciation and commendation were meat, most critics would be vegetarians. — Olalekan A Adebumiti Copy Share Image
“People offer free advice because they don't use that advice for themselves anyway.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Criticism focuses on what's wrong and feedback focuses on how to improve. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
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