response to criticism Quotes

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

It's been like that my whole life. AAU to high school to college, I've always responded when people get on me.

I mean that psychologically. I think [Donald Trump] showed in the debates when he encounters criticism or challenge he behaves the way a bully would. He just doesn't take it well.

I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry.

When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.

You speak bad of me, I score goals.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.