Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.
It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.
One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.
I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.
That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again.
Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.
I made some changes, I didn't go around telling everybody I was ready to make changes, I just remained me. I may get more criticism today in putting this book out than I have. You know, maybe this is my time, but I'm ready to take the criticism and answer anybody's questions.
I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.
Criticism. . . makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
I became one of [Moses Mendelssohn] defenders. But then I heard the words "Biblical criticism" again. And, of course, afterward, I studied it more closely.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism. . . is based on a love of America's ideals and a concern we're not living up to them.
Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
What is a barrier to one person to creativity is a springboard for another. And the thing that makes the difference from one person or another is how they deal with and are affected by their inner voice of blame and criticism, so-called the VOJ or Voice of Judgment.
I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive. . . books that offer unorthodox ways of doing double duty as literary criticism and as love letters to the power of literature per se.
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
I never forgive attacks on my work.