Ed Koch Quotes

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.

Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.

I want to decouple this idea that critique is hatred.

Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say!

No one likes to be criticized.

A lot of people are like, 'Don't read your news clippings.' I read them every day. Anything negative somebody said about me, I find it and use it as fuel.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

If you get anything done, you will be criticized

Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

Anytime something is a little new and a little fresh, it's going to be critiqued.

I've been a big admirer of Tony Dungy, and I'm sure a lot of people are, but he unfairly judged me, and that was disappointing to me.

I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.

We cannot stop anyone from criticising us.

What sells more, criticism or compliments? What do people like more? They enjoy blood.

It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.

I like when people talk negative.

One of the biggest things I struggle with is people's opinions. As much as I would like to say that I don't care, I see those comments. And sometimes it affects you more than others, or may completely change your mood.

Criticism is for real. The amount of hate that I get is.