If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
Donald Rumsfeld

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
Carolyn Heilbrun

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
Bill Laswell

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.
Martin Short

No one likes to be criticized.
Laura Bush

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
Ben Hecht

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Walter Benjamin

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
William Westmoreland

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
Dick Cheney

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.
Jose Ramos-Horta

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
D. Elton Trueblood

They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.
Richard J. Daley

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.
Shannen Doherty

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Henry James

We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.
Lindsay Davenport

We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.
Kenneth Starr

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
James Russell Lowell

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.
Donald Sutherland

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.
Brandi Chastain