Don't criticize what you can't understand.

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Criticism is a privilege that you earn — it shouldn’t be your opening move in an interaction…

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

Most of us are experts at avoiding criticism. It doesn’t feel good to fail or to be judged publicly, so we tend to avoid situations where that might happen. And that’s the biggest reason why you slip into motion rather than taking action: you want to delay failure.

It’s better to create something that others criticize than to create nothing and criticize others. Ricky Gervais

There are “only two choices” in life: being criticized or “being ignored”.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. — Aristotle

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Sólo hay una manera de evitar la crítica: no hacer nada, no decir nada, y no ser nada. ARISTÓTELES, FILÓSOFO

If you’re growing a garden, you need to pull out the weeds, but flowers will die if all you do is pick weeds. They need sunshine and water. People are the same. They need criticism, but they also require positive and substantive language and information and true support to really blossom. If you’re perceived as a negative person — always picking, pulling, criticizing — you will simply get tuned out by those around you. Your influence, ability to teach, and opportunity to make progress will be diminished and eventually lost. When that happens, you become useless, a hindrance to progress. When your feedback is interpreted as a personal attack rather than a critique with positive intentions, you are going backward. Constructive criticism is a powerful instrument essential for improving performance. Positive support can be equally productive. Used together by a skilled leader they become the key to maximum results. Most of us seem to be more inclined to offer the negative. I don’t know why, but it’s easier to criticize than to compliment. Find the right mixture for optimum results.

We have to be able to criticize
what we love,
say what we have to say.
Cause if you're not trying to make something better then
as far as I can tell
you are just in the way.

Commend, Don’t Criticize

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” — Elbert Hubbard