Top 105 Criticized Quotes

When I first got to Apple, which was in ’84, the Mac was already out, and ‘Newsweek’ contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, ‘Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.’

In 2003, I wrote a New York Times best-seller called ‘Shut Up & Sing,’ in which I criticized celebrities like the Dixie Chicks & Barbra Streisand who were trashing then-President George W. Bush. I have used a variation of that title for more than 15 years to respond to performers who sound off on politics.

I would be criticized, like, ‘You don’t talk Korean enough. You sound very American. You sound very white in your music.’ And I’m like, ‘Whoa.’

Even today, despite everything I’ve achieved, I still get criticized. I don’t know why, I’ve never done anybody any harm.

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I’m a tourist. I’m a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‘What are you going to do with it?’

Here’s what I’ve learned about Hillary Clinton: She will be criticized when she speaks; she will be criticized when she doesn’t speak. And so I think she should speak her mind.

After ‘Veer’ failed to set the cash registers ringing, I was written off. I was severely criticized for my weight. But, I took it in my stride and lost several kilos.

Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don’t see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.

When I was younger, I used to dunk and they criticized me for the dunk. They said I couldn’t be an All-Star because I dunked too much. So in order to get the respect from the people, I felt like I had to change my game.

I don’t want to be followed by random men I don’t know. It can also be hard to deal with other kids who are jealous or mean. I can’t post a picture on Instagram without being criticized.

Well, it’s a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it’s no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn’t have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

A player always comes on to the pitch to give their best, and I cannot be criticized for my commitment, only for my performances.

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn’t. Today, it’s probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say – shift happens.

Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person’s reputation make the front page just as quickly – and many would say even more quickly – as stories that enhance it.

Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.

I never criticized one person in any way that I did not believe was true. How am I a mean guy if I’m telling the truth? Because nobody wants to hear the truth.

I’ve been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

When you put yourself out into the world and say, ‘Hey, look at me,’ you’re going to get criticized.

I’m the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, ‘What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,’ but apparently that doesn’t apply to me.

Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn’t do!

I’ve criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There’s plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It’s not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That’s how we’re gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

So much about big-time college sports is criticized. But the worst scandal is almost never mentioned: the academic fraud wherein the student-athletes, so-called, are admitted without even remotely adequate credentials and then aren’t educated so much as they are just kept eligible.

If you write a lovely story about India, you’re criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you’re seen as portraying it in a negative light – it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

I’ve never personally criticized anyone else’s music, but I know that the public’s real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.

Throughout my career, I have criticized my every single step and I am open to any criticism.

As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don’t have to face.

That’s part of the deal. You’re going to be criticized. I always welcomed that. Not everyone believes what I believe. And I welcome the criticism, not because I like it, but because it means they’re watching you. It presents an opportunity to share your message and share your faith.

I’ve been criticized my whole career. When I got drafted in the second round in the green room, they said I wouldn’t even make it in the N.B.A.

I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I’m concerned I’m actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I’m a man.

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

I get criticized for taking roles in films like ‘Ghost Rider 2’, but if you look at my resume, dude, I’ve mixed it up as much as I can.

At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as ‘revolutionary.’ But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.

You can’t be sensitive, because you’re going to get criticized. I don’t care who you are, you’re going to get criticized.

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

No one likes to be criticized.

A lot of fighters don’t like to critique other fighters because this is a fighting sport. But just like when you have good days and bad days, we are OK to talk about it. It’s not so bad for me and my twin brother to critique each other because we have been criticized by everyone else too.

I’ve been criticized by my generation, artists from the ’70s – and there’s nothing more tragic than artists from the ’70s still doing art from the ’70s – because I blur all these borders between fashion and pop.

Michael Jordan was criticized. Barry Bonds was criticized. Some of the greats in every profession have been criticized. Not everything is peaches and cream.

The porridge is either two hot or too cold. At any given moment in this city the police are being criticized for being heavy handed and intervening too quickly, or they’re being criticized for being standoffish and not intervening quickly enough.

I get criticized for being me. I’m enjoying life, and people see it as me not being serious. Not taking the game seriously. You shouldn’t hate somebody for being themselves, for enjoying themselves.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

I’m not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we’ve got to inspire our kids that we shouldn’t be ashamed to be successful.

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements.

I am a proud Article III judge. We’ve been criticized from the beginning of this great country. What I will say about me and my colleagues is it doesn’t matter to us.

One wrong move that appears to reveal a president ensconced in a White House bubble can lose an election, such as when President George H. W. Bush was criticized for expressing interest in the capabilities of a grocery-store scanner in the early 1990s.