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It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up ... I cannot be on the way up again.
Everyone gets criticized.
There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.
Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Don't get me started on critics.
But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
Haters ... are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.
With success comes unhelpful criticism - ignore it.
Haters is one way to describe them. They take anything - feminism, religion, lifestyle choices, art - and they ruin them. They go so extreme that they lose sight of the original goal.
I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little
If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
The problem with criticism today is that is instant, constant, global and permanent.
The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.
When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.
A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end.
Avoid scoffers.
Ignore doubters.
Reject mockers.
Surprise detractors.
Everybody is their own critic.
Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.
Haters are confused admirers who can't understand why everybody else likes you
Perhaps my own struggle against the negativity created by these so-called critics has enabled me to develop a more resilient, peaceful, inner strength which I, in turn, have attempted to communicate to others.
People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another's ambitiousness.
Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.
People generally despise where they flatter.
I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.
Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.
Hold faithfully to your unique vision and your detractors will eventually tire and give-up.
Their reputation of being the spurners of all useless worldly trivia, prejudices and almost everything else in the world except their own interests.
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.
By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).
CHALLENGE -
Instead of losing motivation, empower yourself to prove detractors wrong
Some players are so bad they are hated. Some players are so bad they are forgotten. And some are so bad that they are loved, talked about, treasured.
I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself ... and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
Anyone can criticize. It is important to be a person who can appreciate and show the way to betterment.
If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.
Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.
Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.
Haters are just more people paying attention to you.
I have a lot of critics; we all know that.
Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.
There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad critic gives it away that they don't like you as a person. I quite like that as well, because it means that I've won.
With a lot of success comes a lot of negativity.
The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.
Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.
More often than not, the things we detest and judge in others are a reflection of the things we cannot accept about ourselves.
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
People quick to criticize others, but won't shine the light on themselves. You can't always judge a book by the outside appearance. You have to open it up and read in order to discover how precious it is.
praise publicly, but criticize privately.
I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how dare he." How dare an insider speak critically about other insiders?
A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.
Happy are those who hear their detractions and can put them to mending.
Criticism is perception.
Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.
Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can't see them, then right when you walk by them, they're quiet.
You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.
Critics like mailmen delivering unwanted news.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.
Haters are just confused admires
You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.
I know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me? Sure, I might be slightly embarrassed for a day, but then you just go your own way.
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.
Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.
All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.
Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Negative people offer no hope to the person who wants to pursue their goal. They are a hinder to positive thinking and plans for a brighter future.
I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.
Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.
Sociological critics are waste makers.
People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.
Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.
I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.
It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.
I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers ...
Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators.
Don't Badmouth Yourself Many