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Quotes about Criticism

Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.
- Kobe Bryant
You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
- George W. Bush
Thank you sir for your criticism. If you knew about me what I know about me, you would have written a longer letter.
- George Whitefield
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
- Samuel Johnson
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
- Thomas Paine
No leader lives a day without criticism, and humility will never be more on trial than when criticism comes.
- J. Oswald Sanders
The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard. --Disgrace
- JM Coetzee
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered dangerous but set in place in their compartmental understandings.
- Jack Kerouac
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
- Jack Kerouac
The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.
- Albert Einstein
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
- Norman Vincent Peale