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Social media has become a big part of our lives and I try to manage it well but it's the criticism that motivates me and keeps me going.
- Shreyas Iyer
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Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
- Steve Ballmer
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It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism.
- Shura
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Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.
- Paul Samuelson
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Liberal criticism of George W. Bush's minority cabinet and staff selections reveals just how much the left has come to rely on the manipulation of group identity in America as a means to political power.
- Shelby Steele
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Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he's thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator.
- Michiko Kakutani
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There will always be criticism, but I remained calm and relaxed.
- Jorginho
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The fact that I had spent so many years doing media criticism and thinking really seriously about theme and structure did definitely help. Doing that for several years indirectly built a lot of tools that I would end up using when writing my own fiction.
- Lindsay Ellis
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Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.
- Dusty Springfield
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I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.
- Paul Schrader
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There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.
- Armando Iannucci
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Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.
- Ian St. John
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In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.
- Willie Mays
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
- Malcolm Cowley
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I have received all this criticism because I am a Latin American.
- Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.
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Criticism doesn't worry me.
- Virgil Abloh
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People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
- Jo Brand
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I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.
- Melanie Lynskey
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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
- Stephen Spender
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I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.
- Antony Beevor
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We're professionals, we have to deal with criticism. We get talked about a lot but we have to focus on doing our job well.
- Pepe
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Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
- Susie Orbach
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But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges.
- Michael Chertoff
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It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.
- George H. W. Bush
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If it's constructive criticism, please, go ahead. I'm all up for, 'Hey, your toes were not pointed.' Like, I can see that.
- Artem Chigvintsev
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Sometimes too much criticism is unwarranted.
- Sarfaraz Ahmed
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The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.
- Chrystia Freeland
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A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
- Richard Hofstadter
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If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.
- Anne Beatts
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If I'm only defined by my sport, I really have failed. Yes, I've opened myself up for more criticism, but I'm a professional athlete. I get criticised every week. I'm used to it. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, but you get used to it.
- Adam Goodes
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I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.
- Cecil Beaton
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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.
- Louise Linton
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Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
- Billy Corgan
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Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
- Charles Buxton
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The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
- Charles Buxton
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I try not to let praise or criticism affect me.
- Lucas Vazquez
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Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.
- Jemima Khan
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When you dig down and look at the people who are vocal in their criticism of me, it's a small number.
- Bobby Kotick
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The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.
- Burt Rutan
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
- Edmund Husserl
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The criticism of the Democrats in the past is that they were too timid. They ran on consultant-driven platitudes and didn't offer a compelling enough vision.
- Ro Khanna
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Criticism comes with Celtic. If you take it on board, it can make you ill, but if you think: 'No problem', it makes you really thick-skinned.
- Paul Lambert
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I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.
- Kenneth Koch
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As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.
- Patrick Stump
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I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
- Beverley Mitchell
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At Bayern, if you don't win the Champions League, it's always a criticism because we have a great team, but most of the people forget that there are other great teams, and it's not that we aren't special.
- Jerome Boateng
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The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
- Charles J. Shields
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A large part of the appeal of this novel when I was lucky enough to stumble across the story idea for 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was that I'd finally be writing a horror novel. In a lot of ways, the book is both my criticism of and love letter to horror.
- Paul G. Tremblay
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I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.
- Rod Lurie
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My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!
- Morena Baccarin
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Criticism of a dish is not a criticism of the cook.
- Claire Saffitz
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There was a lot of criticism in Boston that we weren't going to spend money on the Red Sox after we did the Liverpool transaction. Then there was the fear we wouldn't spend in Liverpool. Hopefully the fans of both clubs will eventually see what we see clearly - that there is nothing to fear from the existence of the other club.
- John W. Henry
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
- Yanni
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
- E. M. Forster
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I'm a woman, and I see women get put through an awful lot of grief and be subjected to the kind of criticism, remarks, and suggestions that no woman should ever have to tolerate. And I think we should be helping each other and supporting each other.
- Marcia Clark
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.
- Richard Ben-Veniste
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The harshest criticism may be the best words you ever hear.
- Eric Yuan
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Ever since I took the plunge into active politics, I faced a fair amount of attacks and criticism from political rivals, and I had learnt to take it with a pinch of salt.
- Atishi
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I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you.
- Melissa McCarthy
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I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.
- Michael Showalter
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The consistency - either the theme from record to record, or the band, the different musicians - it really varies. So if I get criticism, I don't worry about that, because I'm still being creative.
- Jason Molina
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A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
- Kurt Huber
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I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.
- Bonnie Jo Campbell
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I don't like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it.
- Jennifer Konner
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Busquets is a sitting midfield player who breaks up play, intercepts, passes it very quickly and is intelligent. That's what he is. He's not much more than that, but he gets a lot of praise for it. Whereas Eric Dier does a similar job, but sometimes gets loads of criticism for it.
- Sam Allardyce
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Criticism of the Middle East should not be directed only at Saudi Arabia. Human rights abuses are happening throughout the Arab world.
- Jamal Khashoggi
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All artists, no matter who they are, have always come into contact with criticism. No one's gonna like what you do 100 percent of the time.
- Erika Jayne
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
- LaDainian Tomlinson
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Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
- Kingsley Amis
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
- Djuna Barnes
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Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.
- Tory Burch
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My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.
- Jay Roach
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Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.
- Steve Vai
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I'm sure it's 10 times easier to handle the criticism and the paparazzi and all of that stuff with somebody by your side that you can share some of that with.
- AJ Michalka
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The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.
- Lacey Chabert
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As a songwriter, it's good to have criticism, and I like objective opinions.
- John Gourley
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Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
- Pankaj Mishra
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I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.
- Timothy F. Cahill
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Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.
- Tibor Fischer
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I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.
- Claire Messud
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When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.
- Gil Penchina
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Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.
- Michael Schudson
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We can all take criticism as long as it's constructive. When it's complete lies, that's when it's disappointing.
- Steve Bruce
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Look, you are going to get criticism if things don't go well.
- Tony Pulis
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The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with criticism.
- Michael Oren
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People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting.
- David Beckham
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Learn to distance yourself from the criticism.
- Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
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Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.
- Erin McKean
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I try not to get affected by criticism as it is unwanted and I can't control it.
- Ajinkya Rahane
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I've now got a 35,000-word document of quotes from people who hate me, a lot from the 'Guardian' comment threads. Mostly, I've managed to get myself into the mindset where the criticism is quite affirming.
- Stewart Lee
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Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country.
- Anatoly Karpov
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Any time you criticize these young guys, they call you a hater. They never ask you if the criticism is fair or not.
- Charles Barkley
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No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.
- Amitabh Bachchan
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Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.
- Martin Parr
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I couldn't care less about criticism.
- Santan Dave
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Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.
- John Gresham Machen
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
- Damon Lindelof
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
- Bainbridge Colby
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I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
- Ben Elton
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