“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”
W. Somerset Maugham book Of Human Bondage
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 50
How Nancy Kwan Went From Ballet to the Big Screen https://www.shondaland.com/live/a22986681/nancy-kwan-interview/ (September 11, 2018)
“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”
W. Somerset Maugham book Of Human Bondage
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 50
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Hu Yaobang (1915–1989) former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
In 1980, during his inspection tour in Tibet, as quoted in Southern Mongolia: Self-Determination Activist Tortured in Prison and Kept Under House Arrest https://unpo.org/article/19652?id=19652
“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 62
“You shouldn’t be so critical. Some people like this kind of thing, you know.”
George Alec Effinger (1947–2002) Novelist, short story writer
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 13 (p. 199).
Edward Albee (1928–2016) American playwright
"Edward Albee : An Interview", in Edward Albee : Planned Wilderness (1980) edited by Patricia De La Fuente, p. 8
Context: I've noticed that there is not necessarily a great relationship between what the majority of critics have to say and what is actually true. Some of them are so busy trying to mold the public taste according to the limits of their perceptions, and others are so busy reflecting what they consider to be the public taste — that view limited again by their perception. You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. I mean, nobody wants to put them out of a job and a good critic is not necessarily a dead critic. It's just that people take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent of stupid — but most people don't take the trouble.
Israel Shahak (1933–2001) Israeli academic
With Norton Mezvinsky.
Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel (1997)