Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.
How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.
When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.
Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?"
When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.
A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
The market is the only critic that matters.
The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.
When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.
A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
The Canadian voice is still too rustic.
A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.