Criticism Impact Quotes

I have always been a player whose form goes up and down but at the moment I feel my batting confidence is at its lowest. Negative comments can affect you and they probably have.

I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

[Characterizing public criticism:] It only hurts for a day.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.

Even when it's true, it sounds bad for any President to claim that criticism of him is damaging to the country's interest.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

It's hard not to let criticism make you feel bad about yourself - I do continue to struggle with that as an older woman in the workplace.

If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.

I hate negativity in general. We, as artists, we pour so much into our music and put out something we believe in... it sucks that people tear you down.

Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.

I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody uses their position at Time magazine to tell 10 million people they don't like me. I know what it's like to have your private life painted in the worst possible light in front of a lot of people.

It is one thing being scrutinised for playing a bad shot as a batsman or bowling a bad spell as a bowler, but the captaincy adds an extra dimension. The criticism is slightly harder to take.

Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

I don't read reviews. I haven't read them for probably 30 years. I can't. When they're bad, they're really rough, and when they're good, they're not good enough. You can always find something to stress over.

I was told my style was supposed to give me a short career.

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.

The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.

The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews.