Critics Quotes

“If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The dreams you have that may meet mockeries from the lips of negative people will yield the success that will squeeze tears from their eyes later! Dare to resist every negative criticism and persist to make it happen!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence; they take corrections.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“The closer you are to the end of your temporal trials, the louder the voice of critics. Close your ears to the heavy downpours of their discouragements. God whispers; “I am with you”!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Don't base your decision on the opinions of those who don't want to see you grow.”
― Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

“Don't give up the fight. Don't dim out the light. Those who at first don't believe in you, will soon begin to ask you "how did you do it?” Keep it up!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.”
― E M Forster

“You can cease to be influenced by people who tease you... Just neglect their helps and elevate your steps... You can do it!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts!  surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes.”
― Sherwood Anderson, A Story Teller's Story

“It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.”
― Samuel Johnson

“…the rising movement of romanticism, with its characteristic idealism, one that tended toward a black-and-white view of the world based on those ideas, preferred for different reasons that women remain untinged by “masculine” traits of learning. Famous romantic writers such as Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Hazlitt criticized the bluestockings. …and Hazlitt declared his 'utter aversion to Bluestockingism … I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.' Because of the tremendous influence that romanticism gained over the cultural mind-set, the term bluestocking came to be a derogatory term applied to learned, pedantic women, particularly conservative ones. ... Furthermore, learned women did not fit in with the romantic notion of a damsel in distress waiting to be rescued by a knight in shining armor any more than they fit in with the antirevolutionary fear of progress.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

“Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries on.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“What your critics say about you is unimportant. You are what you think of yourself.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what’s already done well; blames show them what’s yet to be done well.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Don't fall flat to deception; thousand criticisms can never drift your dream through one millimetre unless you give them the audacity. Be in-charge; you are unstoppable!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“The relationship between the critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue or the dog and lamp post.”
― Ashwin Sanghi

“What God says you are is more important than what others think of you.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful they don’t set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“To The Critics

Suicide has made more than one mediocre author glorious before he's able to achieve that sobering "second edition" making his a suicide that waits until it's justified. But I've taken more precautions against to Suicide which is to survive in the face of failure. Success is mostly editing, that's what makes things nice. To edit is the other great Power; thus this novel started at age 30, continued at 50 and its 73, has finally achieve supremacy: a person of Good Taste as the third author and as a result the editor of all three. In the end I'll be the author of a letter to the critics a sort of "open letter" but for the living: suicide is not something you can edit out.”
― Macedonio Fernández

“The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.”
― Duop Chak Wuol

“Critics build nothing”
― Robert Moses

“Critics like mailmen delivering unwanted news.”
― Christopher Bollen, Orient

“Well, I thought it was a dog, and the critics did, too. Woof.”
― Jonathan Galassi, Muse

“One of the greatest challenges is not going to the mattresses with someone who criticizes your novel.”
― Elizabeth Ann Patterson

“You are not what your critics say you are. You are wonderful sacred-soul.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Criticism is like dissecting a dead frog," Caleb said when the book was published. "They're examining all the guts and shit and organs, when the thing that really matters, whatever it was that animated the body, has long since left. It does nothing for the art.”
― Kevin Wilson