Ruth Gordon Quotes

If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

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• I love having critics for breakfast.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Love
  • Breakfast
  • Critics

• I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Feel
  • Cat
  • Retirement

• The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Find
  • Nothing
  • Critics

• My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Job
  • Same
  • Critics

• Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Free
  • Critics
  • Buy

• If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Success
  • You
  • Critics

• For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Critics
  • Some
  • Popularity

• Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Book
  • Forever

• To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Opinion
  • Songs
  • Records

• I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Ideas
  • Littles
  • Media

• There were internal critics, sharp critics, who were very opposed to [Malcolm X], and who were very - some of them were members of Elijah Mohammad's family, such as Herbert Mohammad, Raymond Shareef, who was the head of the Fruit of Islam, the brother-in-law of - the son-in-law of Elijah Mohammad. They isolated Malcolm X and kept him out of the newspaper of the organization Mohammad Speaks for over a year, which is kind of curious.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Family
  • Law
  • Kind

• I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Critics
  • Harsh
  • Status Quo

• Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Want
  • Plans

• Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Enemy
  • Possibility
  • Plans

• I was never a critic.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Critics

• Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!

  

  Cory Booker
  • Wise
  • Humble
  • Enemies

• There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Success
  • Marketing

• I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Great
  • Knows
  • Eternity

• I'm my biggest critic. I want there to be no flaws when you hear it. When I think that maybe it's ready, I just hop in my car it's gotta have some bump - and go to corner stores, youngsters on the block, play it for anyone. If they get into it, I get a reaction, the song passes the hyphy test. If it's just cool, we throw it away; it's not going on the record. But if it makes you wanna move - seriously - if it makes you react the same way I felt, then it passes.

  

  Keak da Sneak
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Critics

• Sure, sir, I will,” I promised, “but I just want to tell you first that Jesus loves you.”

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • You
  • Jesus
  • Tell

• We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Value
  • Military
  • Heroes

• If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

  

  Ruth Gordon
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