If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back. – Ellen Swallow Richards
I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes! – Dascha Polanco
How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically. – Paul Thomas Anderson
What we don’t need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn’t. – Charley Pride
The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively. – M. H. Abrams
The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism. – David Brock
In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded. – Enrique Pena Nieto
I can’t see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism. – David Walliams
Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined. – Eric Alterman
To test a modest man’s modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. – Franz Grillparzer
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. – E. M. Forster
People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting. – David Beckham
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character. – Ferdinand Mount
It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it. – Donatella Versace
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
Let me just say, I think there’s a reasonable criticism to be made of the Obama administration on the way that it left Iraq. – Dexter Filkins
The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. – David Coverdale
Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive. – Donald Rumsfeld
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy. – Evgeny Morozov
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