The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
People who refuse to step out and be used by God become the critics of those who do. Risk takers, the ones… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I'm going to the war. They say to me daily,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets,… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you… — Jonathan Gold Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Was Mann himself fully aware of all the facets of his irony? Probably not - any more than Shakespeare was fully aware… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My critics always forget to mention that I was democratically elected, the others were not. Everyone in Uganda can challenge me, everyone… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah,… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact… — Marissa Nadler Copy Share Image
The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number… — Millar Burrows Copy Share Image
I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit… — Clive James Copy Share Image
The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Any book on empire will omit, by necessity, vast tracts of the imperial experience, and so critics can easily find facts and… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
The cultural wars of the sixties are over. I've reconciled with those who were my critics and opponents years ago. I was… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they… — Rosanna Arquette Copy Share Image
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the… — Mark Kermode Copy Share Image
The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a… — James Howell Copy Share Image
You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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