Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it’s really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it’s really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. – Ann Patchett
The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John’s first American album, ‘Elton John,’ was that the production was too grandiose. The melodies were superb, and lyrics frequently very good, and the performances flawless. – Jon Landau
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
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I’m probably going to write about it in a different way. – Alex Kapranos
If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on. – Johnny Iuzzini
If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it’s that they’re almost entirely scripted. – Jimmy Kimmel
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism. – Irving Babbitt
Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers’ union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. – Campbell Brown
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
I didn’t take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that’s when I went to being the MVP. – Allen Iverson
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
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. – Brendan Fraser
Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents. – Charles Kennedy
It becomes obvious when people are sincere in their criticism and when they’re not. I’ve learned over time that people will always have something to say. – Ciara
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. – Clifford Geertz
I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don’t really exist in cinema now. The only person who’s really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier. – Alice Lowe
For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing. – Carmen Electra
What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I’m a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don’t think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is. – Brad Thor
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. – Bertrand Russell
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. – Anne Stevenson
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions – which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. – Camille Paglia
You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what’s constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, ‘This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?’, you’re not going to learn anything from that. – Blake Lively
All I’ve done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I’m not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench. – Baltasar Garzon
I’m not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions. – Cornel West