For (strange as it may sound to many people, who tend to think of critics as being motivated by the lower emotions: envy, disdain, contempt even) critics are, above all, people who are in love with beautiful things, and who worry that those things will get broken. What motivates so many of us to write in the first place is, to begin with, a great passion for a subject (Tennessee Williams, Balanchine, jazz, the twentieth-century novel, whatever) that we find beautiful; and, then, a kind of corresponding anxiety about the fragility of that beauty.

Daniel Mendelsohn

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Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.

Orrin Woodward

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Those who lack the guts to create critic.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Critiquing a doer isn’t doing.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

William K. Wimsatt

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And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.

Stephen King

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