Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.
You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.
A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
We’re our own worst critics.
There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.
It wouldn’t be football unless you had critics. There are always going to be doubters and people that will question you as a player but you’ve just got to get through it.
I always try to keep my friends within my music. I always play them all of the songs, and they are my biggest critics, and they love it, so that’s a good sign.
Here’s the thing with the business, is that when people like your work, and you make them money, you’re set. When the critics like you, and you make the studios money, doors opened.
I am pushed by my critics. I don’t want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.
Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.
I’ve stopped reading about the death of books because it’s wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 – or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
When I made ‘Lil Boat,’ my first mixtape, I didn’t have a drop date, a due date. I didn’t have critics rating on it; I was just making it. And then when I finished it, I dropped it at my own smoothness, at my own pace.
I don’t mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.
There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it’s getting.
Who are critics? Do they know about music? Have they proved themselves in the field? I remember, when we came up with the music of ‘Dil Chahta Hai,’ some of the critics said that the songs sounded like jingles.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‘mature’ critics often are.
My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who make statements that are unfounded. That doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t have constructive criticisms, but it should be constructive.
There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone – commenting on everything simply because they can. That’s not what cultural criticism is.
Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won’t give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what’s happened and what’s transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
Critics of ‘economic sciences’ sometimes refer to the development of a ‘pseudoscience’ of economics, arguing that it uses the trappings of science, like dense mathematics, but only for show.
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.
The only difference between me and my critics is that I don’t lie to the world about who I am. People are complicated and often seemingly hypocritical. Embrace the diversity of your mind.
Critics established a snobbery toward me.
Critics? Don’t talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don’t.
Critics for established venues are vetted by editors; they usually demonstrate a certain objectivity; and they come with known backgrounds and specialized knowledge.
Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
I have some friends, most of them are writers or editors, whose recommendations I trust blindly. There are some critics, too, whom I trust, but not many.
For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.
I think I won’t do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don’t send them to me.
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.
To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he’s better than them – though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he’s that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He’s that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.
Generally, I respect critics; they have their job to do.
Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.
I’ve always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America’s naive faith that it had reinvented politics.
Maybe one day I could make a film which works at the box-office and the critics also like it.
Over the years, the critics have said, ‘They never change.’ Maybe the little guy’s got a new color of school uniform. I always thought, ‘Well, what were we going to change into?’ A jazz band? A keyboard band?
Critics can get you critical acclaim – nothing more than that. Success or failure depends on the public.
I don’t care if the critics don’t like me. I want to be the people’s designer, like Diana was the people’s princess.
It’s the only thing that allowed me to win so many championship fights and allowed me to put up with the bigotry of the media, the keyboard warriors, the critics. I’ve endured it all because, spiritually, I am buoyant, alive.
Critics said I am nasal, but my fans made me hit. So I will not stop singing if critics don’t like me.
I know that I’m never as good or bad as any single performance. I’ve never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena.
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here’s why: because it’s a job without credentials. You don’t have to go to school.
Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.
We can’t figure out why any time we play in the East, the critics either ignore us or write a pretty bad review of the show.
What I’ve realized is that we’re our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
I always think I’m the Tom Cruise of music – a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
Critics don’t buy records. They get ’em free.
I don’t make clothes for the critics.
One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren’t aware of is that, especially in a film like ‘Moonlight,’ you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.
Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the category, dismissed as a branch of juvenile literature.
We’re all our own worst critics and so hard on ourselves, but for me, my biggest insecurity is my arms. I just hate the tops of them. I work out and they still never look good enough for me. So, over the years I’ve learned to dress to make myself feel better.
But thankfully, my first album, ‘Wide Screen,’ was sort of a critics’ darling – everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn’t even in the running for failure!
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
