Quotes About Negative Criticism

#1. Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

Anton Chekhov

#2. I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

Terry McMillan

#3. Don't take to heart, any negative criticism. Focus on positive thoughts

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

Samuel Johnson

#5. Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#6. Don't accept any negative criticism and negative thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.

Macklemore

#8. There will always be critics. On one hand, criticism can be positive. On the other hand, criticism can be negative. But critics will always be watching the game. If you listen to everybody, you can go crazy. I have my own point of view, and I always try to keep it.

Alexander Ovechkin

#9. It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

Keeley Hawes

#10. Criticism always produces negative reactions, but appreciation always creates positive actions.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Self-criticism and negative thoughts about yourself will attract people who reflect this back to you, showing critical behavior and can abuse you physically.

Hina Hashmi

#12. With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.

Criss Jami

#13. Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.

Virginia H. Pearce

#14. The bigger your job, the more negative evaluations you must hand out. And the more criticism you must be willing to absorb.

Alan Loy McGinnis

#15. Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about what it is you want to be doing and where ... you want to be going, but also be smart enough that you're essentially listening to criticism, negative feedback, competitive entries.

Reid Hoffman

#16. I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you.

Christian Baloga

#18. To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!

Criss Jami

#19. Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Joyce Meyer

#20. The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.

Vladimir Nabokov

#21. Don't deceive yourself; laughing at someone's weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

John Wooden

#23. All the criticism is ultimately a blessing in disguise. Because now people know about Malawi [due to the child adoption]. And now people know about the orphans there. And hopefully it's gonna turn around. And a positive is gonna come out of the negative.

Madonna Ciccone

#24. Discard negative comments, criticism and influences.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. I will treat all my negative reactions to this form of meditation as merely thought forms prompted by my ego to keep me from taking it seriously. I will suspend judgment, criticism, and doubt.

Ram Dass

#26. Don't listen to criticism, positive or negative. You just keep going forward.

Arian Foster

#27. Ignore negative criticisms, focus on positive thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the feelings of love for and interest in one's spouse.

H. Burke Peterson

#29. My friend, stay positive! It is really good to always stay positive. You don't really give a damn to negative people, circumstances and things! You only learn lessons from them that can help you take precautions to always stay positive for positive footprints!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#30. An ad for cigars appears in 100,000 newspapers; sales of that brand increase by 3% for a short time thereafter. A new play receives a viciously negative review in a theatrical journal that prints 500 copies; the playwright shoots himself. Who's the better writer?

Jason Lutes

#31. A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.

Rebecca West

#32. Criticism is always hard to take - we musicians are sensitive. It's always hard when someone says something negative - but you try to learn to just let it roll off and not worry about it.

Joshua Bell