Quotes about critics

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what’s already done well blames show them what’s yet to be done well.

Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence they take corrections.

Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don't agree to accept what critics say be prepared to silence them by doing what they think you can't do!

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Don't fall flat to deception thousand criticisms can never drift your dream through one millimetre unless you give them the audacity. Be in-charge you are unstoppable!

Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.

The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful they don’t set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

Sometimes people are shocked by what I do, but I'm not trying to be liked, I speak my mind and I don't care what people think. I truly do not compromise on who I am.

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).

Criticism is like dissecting a dead frog," Caleb said when the book was published. "They're examining all the guts and shit and organs, when the thing that really matters, whatever it was that animated the body, has long since left. It does nothing for the art.

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

You may silence the critics, but you don't silence the pain.

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

I started this dirty quote business when I noticed that I only tend to read authors when their quotes convince me of wit and style. In a world overflowing with bad literature and corrupted product-placement critics the only weapon one has is either word of mouth or quotes, and me I highly prefer the latter. So I have just decided that I will only post to facebook through goodreads quotes. That's policy that makes a lot of sense for a writer.

Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definitio

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.

I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, 1977]

I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics combined to discredit an author’s nose for things, he would be reduced to a fearful creature who took a mistakenly guarded, absurdly cautious approach to his work, which would end up stifling his latent genius.

I used to listen to all the voices in my head that told me I wasn’t good enough, or that I would fail if I tried, or that everyone would judge me harshly for my truth. I used to let one fear or the other dictate how I chose to live my life. Not surprisingly, my life didn’t change much. I spent a lot of time with regret, and thinking about what could have been. I found myself wishing I’d at least tried to do some of the things I’d been so afraid to do. So I began to. I made the choice to hear all

ld heads forgetful of their sins,Old, learned, respectable bald headsEdit and annotate the linesThat young men, tossing on their beds,Rhymed out in love’s despairTo flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.They’ll cough in the ink to the world’s end;Wear out the carpet with their shoesEarning respect; have no strange friend;If they have sinned nobody knows.Lord, what would they sayShould their Catullus walk that way?

If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.

A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually lived, not far from the old house of his fathers. Of the rest he took some and built a tower. But his friends coming perceived at once (without troubling to climb the steps) that these stones had formerly belonged to a more ancient building. So they pushed the tower over, with no little labour, and in order to look for hi

Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts!  surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become.

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden. It is actually much simpler than that, otherwise art would have no meaning. You have to be a child—incidentally children understand my pictures very well, and I haven’t met a serious critic who could stand knee-high to those children.

I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

Don’t deceive yourself; laughing at someone’s weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!

Genius feels like an over extended Helium balloon about to burst, and everyone criticizes you for not having a conventional way of coping with it.

People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.

All great people had critics, but they still believe in beauty of their dreams.

I think there’s a ton of fear in the perception of romance in part because there’s something very realistic in great romance — namely, that women have the right to demand relationships that are based on equality and honesty and trust and, yes, a great sex life.

What your critics say about you is unimportant. You are what you think of yourself.

What God says you are is more important than what others think of you.

Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but he did his life mission anyways.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Insecurity is the lack of trust in your abilities and worth. When you enter into a secured state of consciousness, everything that helped boost your confidence will return.

Our critics make us strong!Our fears make us bold!Our haters make us wise!Our foes make us active!Our obstacles make us passionate!Our losses make us wealthy!Our disappointments make us appointed!Our unseen treasures give us aknown peace!Whatever is designed against us will work for us!

Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.

Still the voices of your critics. Listen intently to your own voice, to the person who knows you best. Then answer these questions: Do you think you should move ahead? How will you feel if you quit pursuing this thing you want to do? And what does your best self advise? What you hear may change your life.

Don't give up the fight. Don't dim out the light. Those who at first don't believe in you, will soon begin to ask you "how did you do it?” Keep it up!

Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.

Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

Everyone is watching you. If you don’t believe it, just pretend to fail and you’ll see many mockers. For this reason, work hard as if you are doing everyone’s business!

There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

You are not what your critics say you are. You are wonderful sacred-soul.

Many critics are born of envy.

Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the cinematic field of battle, rushing in where angels fear to tread, even when the patient is clearly without a pulse.

It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

The meaning you apply to what has happened to you is your decision. There will be critics that have their version, but God didn’t call them to be your audience, someone else did.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detach

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.

Constant indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

Critics are biased and so are readers. (Indeed a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.

Two and two continue to make four in spite of the whine of the amateur for three or the cry of the critic for five.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader and would no more read a book alone if they could help it than have a baby alone.

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism founded upon appreciation of beauty and of intellectual distinction and of duty.

To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.

In judging others folks will work overtime for no pay.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.