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CRITICISM



So what if others criticize me. I can use criticism to develop myself. My automatic reaction will be to listen carefully for any valuable lessons the critic is trying to teach me. If there is nothing of value, I'll simply thank the critic for his/her opinion and leave it at that. Since I am secure with who I am and I know myself better than anyone else, I have nothing to defend...I need not become defensive. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions...if I can learn something from them, that's great. I welcome criticism.




"There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic." (Zig Ziglar)

"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done." (Dale Carnegie)

"In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay." (Charles Edwin Carruthers)

"I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored." (Bill Cartwright)

"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

"The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them." (Jackie Collins)

"It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination." (Edward Dahlberg)

"Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it." (Epictetus)

"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!" (Fannie Flagg)

"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." (Benjamin Franklin)

"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better." (Oliver Goldsmith)

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard)

"If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord." (H. A. Ironside)

"The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things." (Jean De La Bruyere)

"If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference." (Abraham Lincoln)

"The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being." (Lynn M. Little)

"Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins." (American Indian Proverb)

"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness." (Henry David Thoreau)

"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes." (Source Unknown)

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own. (Source Unknown)

"Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it." (Source Unknown)

"The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route." (Source Unknown)

"Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants." (Walter Winchell)

"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others." (Virginia Woolf)

"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots." (Frank A. Clark)

"It is infinitely easier to criticize than to create." (John McCormick)

"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." (Brendan Behan)

"All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism." (Unknown)

"We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie." (Ismail Merchant)

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things." (Theodore Roosevelt)

"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses." (Johann Kepler)