~ One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. ~
~ The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things ~
~ If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. ~
~ Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown ~
~ They criticize me for harping on the obvious - If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves ~
~ Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ~
~ Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me. ~
~ National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services ~
~ The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. ~
~ What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you. ~
~ Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. ~
~ I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance ~