You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects. — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You're always nervous about what critics say - about what anybody has to say, really. — Ethan Slater Copy Share Image
If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago. — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book.… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Still the voices of your critics. Listen intently to your own voice, to the person who knows you best. Then answer these… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters.… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels. — Jacoby Shaddix Copy Share Image
How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals" ... Today I am going to speak to you about… — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
Since my romance novels had all been thrillers as well, it wasn't such a leap for me to move into the straight… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or… — kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very… — Steven Bauer Copy Share Image
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors.… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants - one of the reasons restaurant critics are the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
![“Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/467/dorothy-l-sayers-738_buried_perhaps-the-critics-are-right-and-the-dr_43252.jpg)