Tim Ferriss Quotes
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I love having critics for breakfast.
Carlos Fuentes -
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
J. B. Priestley -
My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
Naomi Wolf -
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
Nat King Cole -
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
Malcolm X -
For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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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 -
Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
Aloe Blacc -
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 -
You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.
Garry Winogrand -
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 -
I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.
Andrew Cuomo
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The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.
Ang Lee -
The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth
T. D. Jakes -
I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
Elia Kazan -
Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.
Elizabeth Berkley -
Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
Arthur Rimbaud -
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
Billy Joel
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I was never a critic.
Curtis Hanson -
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 -
Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.
Aristotle -
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
Thomas Hobbes -
Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.
Michael B. Jordan -
There are no statues erected to critics.
Tim Ferriss