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Quotes about Criticism

No matter how good a life you lead, you won't please everyone. Someone will be glad to see you go.
- Marcus Aurelius
And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can't even meet their own standards.
- Marcus Aurelius
Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.
- Marcus Aurelius
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
- Cicero
Various people at her church kept saying that she could be happy because she was going home to be with Jesus. This is the sort of thing that gives Christians a bad name. This, and the Inquisition. Sue wanted to open fire on them all. I think I encouraged this.
- Anne Lamott
How can I create something that critics will criticize?
- Seth Godin
Eye contact, all by itself, is enough to throw your lizard brain into a tizzy. Imagine how scary it must be to set out to do something that will get you noticed, or perhaps even criticized.
- Seth Godin
Most criticism shared in the internet age is useless, or worse, harmful. It's useless because it often personalizes the criticism to be about the creator, not the work. And it's useless because most critics are unskilled and ungenerous.
- Seth Godin
admit it. When I get a bad review, my feelings are hurt. After all, it would be nice if every critic said a title of mine was a breakthrough, an inspirational, thoughtful book that explains how everything works. But sometimes they don't. Which is about enough to ruin my day.
- Seth Godin
If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
- John Henry Newman
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
- John Lennon