Ignoring Criticism Quotes

I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it.

The people who don't like me are completely irrelevant to me, just as I'm irrelevant to them.

When I was at school, most people were planning on going to university and becoming doctors or lawyers. I wanted to be a singer, and I was laughed at. It was tough, but I never let anything stop me.

I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

I spent a great deal of my career willingly ignoring the fact that people are participating in it, because it allows me to function without second-guessing it, without thinking, 'Oh, I wonder what people are gonna think of this,' or, 'I wonder what people aren't gonna think of this.'

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

When I started singing, people said I couldn't sing because I was a music director. I proved them wrong.

I just do the job to the best of my ability and then you have to move on. You have to watch things back to learn from them, but I try not to dwell or worry about what people might think. I don't read reviews if I can help it.

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.

Everybody was telling me to sit my ass down. Everybody was telling me to get a real job. Everybody was asking me, "What are you doing? You're ruining your life. You're embarrassing your family." That's all I got. So you can't listen to that. You have to listen to yourself.

I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook. I see other things written. But I don't care.

Don't let nobody try to stop y'all from doing what y'all trying to do man.

The haters want to hate. They want to talk about this and talk about that. We don't even acknowledge it.

Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.

If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

I've never bothered about what people say about me.

You know, people hate me or love me and I just don't even bother paying attention to it anymore.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they're best at. Too often, they're driven away from it by other people.