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“All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.”

Hurt Criticism Hurt Me

Author:Anne Lamott

“Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the sinister application Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter; who will distort and strain The general scope and purpose of an author To his particular and private spleen.”

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Author:Ben Jonson

“Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.”

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Book:pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty

Source: pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty

“A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. . . . Like the best works of farce, academic or otherwise, Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage. By the end, you may well find yourself laughing so hard it hurts.”

“No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.”

“When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.”

People Use Hurt Criticism

Author:Brian Eno

“Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.”

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Author:William E. Gladstone

“The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.”

Sometimes Hurt Worry Effects Criticism My Family

Author:David Beckham

“If you pay too much attention to the criticism of the one who is inferior, then you must endure the constraints of the plane to which you have descended without feeling hurt.”

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Author:Chico Xavier

“Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.”

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Author:John Britt Daniel

“I got into television criticism because I thought it would be easier than film criticism. Film, you had to know 100 years of history, and TV you only had to know 40 when I started. And I thought, "Well, that's going to be so much easier." But film stayed pretty much the same. And television has changed so many times that my head hurts. So I made the wrong call there.”

Film Hurt Changed Criticism

Author:David Bianculli