"If you want to please the critics, don't……" — Arturo Toscanini

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• Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but… — Isaac Asimov
• Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's… — Kevin Bacon
• Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media… — Russell Baker
• Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against… — James A. Baldwin
• I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my… — Charles Barkley
• I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
• It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. — Charles Baudelaire
• A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
• A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and… — Joseph Addison
• Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. — Joseph Addison
• We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point… — Henry Ward Beecher

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