Critics Quotes

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

It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.

It is not my methodology to engage too much with critics for many reasons:- I honestly believe that my ego is not worthy of my having to defend it. There are far more important things in the ummah than me having to respond to critics.- By and large, criticism is a part of human life and nature and we have ourselves to accomplish more than just responding to what people say about us.- The best way to silence the speech of the critics it through the deafening noise of your own actions.- Criticising is the job that requires zero qualifications.

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

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

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck

A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.

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.

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.

Small people have small minds, and thus deride big dreamers.Small people have small hearts, and thus disparage big chancers.Small people have small souls, and thus disdain big achievers.

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.

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!

Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.

One who throws stones at others has less to use to build his own house.

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.

Don’t keep people in hatred. You might lose that very person who should endorse your next appointment letter if you are a skillful hater of people. Let love lead

Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life.

The dreams you have that may meet mockeries from the lips of negative people will yield the success that will squeeze tears from their eyes later! Dare to resist every negative criticism and persist to make it happen!

Always bring money along with your complaints.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle.

You may face opposition not only because you are doing something wrong, but because you are doing something right. Not all oppositions are meant for a better life!

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

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.

Before cruelly vilifying them from a great height, the mudslingers at newspapers and journals should bear in mind that all artistic endeavors were by and large a mixture of effort and imagination, the embodiment of a solitary endeavor, of a sometimes long-nurtured dream, when they were not a desperate bid to give life meaning.

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

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.

Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.

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.

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.

If you invest in your critics more than you invest in your dreams, you have successfully invested in your failure.

There is nothing worse then being surrounded by a bunch of people telling you to do what is right, when they can't define that definition, without a lot of hatred and judgment behind it.

The bigger the bricks critics throw at you the bigger the palace you are going to build.

Learn from seeds to rise, no matter how much dirt is thrown at you.

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

Being a critic is easy.But if the critic tries to run the operation, he soon understands that nothing is as easy as his criticisms.Criticism without a solution is merely an inflation of the critic's ego.

Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label -- to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must never not write a certain kind of novel out of fear of what the reaction to it will be.

Smile at your critics for they have yet to see the universe that exists outside the box

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

Any fool can criticize and many of them do.

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

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.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

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.

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

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

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

Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you'll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use.

I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect souls that seek imperfection vs. perfection, in an imperfect world where God asks us to seek perfection for our imperfect souls.

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.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.

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.

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

To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.