Criticism Avoidance Quotes

The best advice I received came late, and it's this: Don't read the comments section of any story that mentions you!

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Don't think that you can go to Washington and dress as an individual. If you want to avoid criticism, you need to be a twin-set-sweater-and-pearls type of girl.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.

The trouble is that you get fans who tell you you're great no matter how big an idiot you are.

My policy is to not read any reviews.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

When a critic or journalist writes, 'It's too complex,' or, 'It's full of plot holes,' they very rarely take the step of identifying what they mean. The reason they do that is to protect themselves, because they don't want to reveal that they may have misunderstood or missed something.

I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It's a reasonable assumption, but it's wrong. In five and a half years in politics up north, no one really bothered to criticize my ideas, such as they were. It was never my message that was the issue. It was always the messenger.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing

It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.

I never wish for critics.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

I'm very sensitive to criticism, particularly when it's very, very personal.

I have observed in my 30 years in Washington that when a President initiates a major policy speech on a controversial issue while Congress is in recess, it usually is because what he is advocating is indefensible and that he is seeking to minimize criticism.

All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.

I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.

I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere.

I'm curious about everything, except what people have to say about me.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

The Democrats are incapable of even being accused of violating political correctness, so they don't even worry about it. The Democrats have really grown accustomed, however, to Republicans not attacking, not criticizing them.

We cannot stop anyone from criticising us.

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.