If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.
Orison Swett Marden
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A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.
Glenn Greenwald
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There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
Martin Scorsese
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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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When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.
Gordon Brown
PeopleCriticismLearnYouListen
I started making art with art therapy. It's what I know how to do. I got a lot of criticism for that when I was in school. But I think it works for me.
Mickalene Thomas
ArtSchoolMeThinkCriticismKnow
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
Laura Riding
LiveCriticismCircleOutHollow
While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.
Erwin McManus
LoveCriticismDoingAnythingWould
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Milan Kundera
CriticismBecomeAccidentsHistorical
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
CharacterHistoryCriticismMature
The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.
Ezekiel Elliott
MyselfDayCriticismBetterTrying
For a profession that holds dear both the ability to vivisect politicians in prose and the expectation that these carved-up subjects will not complain, the media is horribly thin-skinned and vengeance-seeking when on the receiving end of criticism.
Julia Gillard
CriticismEndMediaExpectationWill
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
Hari Kunzru
WorkLiveCriticismWishWho
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
Ellen Swallow Richards
WaterCriticismDuckYouBackRun
Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.
Jason Alexander
BestTrainingThinkCriticismActing
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
ProgressGovernmentCriticismDesire
I look back on shows now that I thought were good, and I don't like them so much anymore. Or criticism I didn't understand or agree with now makes sense.
Dries van Noten
GoodCriticismThoughtLookBack
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.
Joseph Brodsky
CriticismNothingLineLastPoem
When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
Carlos Ghosn
GoodStartCriticismYouResults
I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.
David Lowery
LoveArtThinkCriticismImportant
I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.
Don Shula
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For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
Dan Rather
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People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting.
David Beckham
PeopleCriticismFightingReactWay
You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.
Denise Mina
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