Top 47 Quotes About Detractors
#1. Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.
Robert Kiyosaki
#2. I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.
LeRoy Neiman
#3. If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
Jonathan Swift
#4. Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents.
Charles Kennedy
#5. The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher-God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher-God complex.
Taylor Mali
#6. I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.
Hans Blix
#7. Avoid scoffers.
Ignore doubters.
Reject mockers.
Surprise detractors.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#8. It seemed to us that the fantastic can be, can do, so much more than its detractors assume: it can illuminate the real, it can distort it, it can mask it, it can hide it. It can show you the world you know in a way that makes you realise you've never looked at it, not looked at it.
Neil Gaiman
#9. Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.
Joyce Carol Oates
#11. Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something.
Yann Martel
#12. Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.
Vijender Singh
#13. I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.
Ken Wilber
#14. Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.
Henry Rollins
#15. As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You walk into a new audience where nobody knows you, they go: 'Make us laugh. Show us what you're made of. Prove why we should be listening to you.'
Trevor Noah
#16. You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.
Phil Anselmo
#17. There are some Trump detractors who feel like it's the media's job to stop Trump.
Howard Kurtz
#18. I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude.
Robert Polidori
#19. Hold faithfully to your unique vision and your detractors will eventually tire and give-up.
Bryant McGill
#20. I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.
Ellen Willis
#21. Today is the day to move pass your past, move closer to your dreams, rise above your detractors, feel the fear and do it anyway, stoop below your ego, get out of your own way, and allow your life to amaze you.
Elissa Gabrielle
#22. Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.
William A. Rusher
#23. Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.
Peter S. Prescott
#24. he constantly came up with more and more ways to publicly execute his detractors in the most gruesome of ways. There was a purpose to such barbarity; Granzool wanted to ensure that his people feared him more than they could ever fear the western monsters.
Shane Porteous
#25. The preachers of past failures are the detractors of the success of the present and jeopardizers of the future
ABC
#26. A story went around that someone had asked Mozart how he intended to refute his detractors.
"I will refute them with new works," he said.
It was a confident, valiant thing for him to say, everyone thought. I thought so too, when I invented the story; and I still believe it today. (172)
Joan Wickersham
#27. Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of its delights.
Marquis De Sade
#28. Clinton is the first female to be taken seriously for the highest office in the land. She has the credentials, the stamina and she is a good campaigner. Her detractors in both parties like to say she can't win, but they may be proven wrong.
Helen Thomas
#29. For all the claims of his detractors that Stewart is the epitome of East Coast elitism, there is more self-deprecating New Jersey grit here than arrogant Manhattan elan.
Anonymous
#30. You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive ... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.
Daniel Goldin
#31. CHALLENGE -
Instead of losing motivation, empower yourself to prove detractors wrong
Kamil Ali
#32. Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's doing a great job for the country.
Donald Trump
#33. The jail was Maycomb's only conversation piece: its detractors said it looked like a Victorian privy; its supporters said it gave the town a good solid respectable look, and no stranger would ever suspect that it was full of niggers. As
Harper Lee
#34. No man who has played a role on the world stage has ever been without his detractors, and only a few have been without their apologists.
Emmuska Orczy
#35. In case you are facing with opposition or detractors, don't automatically assume they are villains. As a leader, you have to know what their concerns are, why do they disagree with what you are doing and other related concerns.
Firas Samri
#36. Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.
Ann Powers
#37. [Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
Lisa Kudrow
#38. For the disproportionate fear that the statistically and historically minimal group of women who were both angry and had hairy legs have inculcated both in their detractors and in their wannabe-successors, we should salute them as often as possible
Nina Power
#39. I have my detractors, no doubt about it. I look at it as a compliment.
Ken Harrelson
#40. My detractors are only accusing me of blowing up cars. What they have not realised is that my films have the potential to cross language barriers. New avenues have opened for Hindi films, and I'm proud and happy about it.
Rohit Shetty
#41. Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.
Dave Morris
#42. There may be no English word as bent and broken by casual misuse, or drained of blood by idealizing admirers and apologists, or grossly caricatured by huckstering detractors, as church.
Craig Keen
#43. Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.
Daniel Okrent
#44. Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.
Meg Cabot
#45. Concentrate on your strength and strongly build your strength whilst others concentrate on your weakness! When your strength is strong enough, you shall surely put them to shame with your strength, and they shall surely see their own weakness better!.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#46. Let the whole world tag you wrongly, brand you with evil and create a different you, and let God give you a solemn tag of dignity and see you differently, you have no problem at all!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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