A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. — Danielle Steel
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch. — Kingsley Amis
I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. — Werner Herzog
Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic. — Frank Sinatra
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. — Iris Murdoch
Good is not good, when better is expected. — Thomas Fuller
A bad website is like a grumpy salesperson. — Jakob Nielsen
Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves. — John Ray
People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare. — Jo Brand
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. — Malcolm X
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. — Kurt Vonnegut
Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right. — Stephanie Zacharek
If people are complaining about something, it means the product is good enough that they care about it. — Cliff Lerner
Short Bad Reviews Quotes
When people say they don't like something, but they can't stop talking about it, you know it's good. — Changpeng Zhao
Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth — Jay Abraham
Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any. — Jane Russell
They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy. — Billie Joe Armstrong
I think you should always be seeking negative feedback. — Sayings
I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong — Paul Scholes
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. — John Ruskin
Badness is only spoiled goodness. — C. S. Lewis
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one. — Tacitus
If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter — Anton Chekhov
Bad Reviews Image Quotes
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
What Is Good And Bad Quotes
God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you! — Paula White
Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose. — Abraham Maslow
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. — Saint Augustine
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. — Suzanne Collins
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway
All these social media sites allow us to confuse truth and popularity. That has to be fixed. Because every normal citizen has a right to know what is factual versus what is amplified by good actors or bad actors. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment! — Aly Raisman
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate. — Socrates
In reality, failure is simply feedback. It’s not that you are bad or not good enough or incapable. Failure — Lewis Howes
If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride. — Anish Kapoor
It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews. — Kenny Loggins
In the past, I’ve had my share of good reviews, but it’s always the crazy, scary, weirdo guy. I don’t even know how it happened. Look at me. I mean, when I’m naked, I look like a bald chicken. How did I get to be a scary bad guy? — Gary Oldman
One cannot review a bad book without showing off. — W. H. Auden
Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review. — Taylor Swift
It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews. — Robert Ludlum
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.' — Barbra Streisand
Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a bad review. You can go, "This guy doesn't have me figured out." There's more mystery to you than they understand. — Dolph Lundgren
I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical. — Elton John
I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them. — Oscar Levant
Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off. — W. H. Auden
I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble. — John Carpenter
For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention. — M. Night Shyamalan
Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself. — Gordon Ramsay
It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made. — Terry Zwigoff
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. — Evelyn Waugh
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. — Isaac Asimov
I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness. — Charlie Kaufman
Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life. — Will Friedle
The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini. — Salman Rushdie
So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result. — Emily Mortimer
When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review. — Scott Hamilton
I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves. — Carly Simon
The reviews on it, and the new novel, Honky Tonk Samurai have been awesome, though I'm of the school if you believe the good ones you got to believe the bad ones, it's been mostly good ones. The previewers seem to be very happy and excited about it. I know I am. There are plans to continue if it does well. — Joe R. Lansdale
The funny thing is that some reviews are published in magazines and websites that are seen by millions of people, and other reviews are in very small publications or less popular websites, and you just have to be lucky to have the good reviews land in places where more people see them, and bad reviews land in places where they will be less seen. — Jeffrey Lewis
I live in the house bad reviews built. — Paul Stanley
I try not to read reviews because I know how sensitive I am and how debilitating it is and how it follows me around. If they're bad, you feel terrible, you feel worthless, no matter if you think they're wrong - and if they're good, it feels cheap and sleazy because you went looking for it. — Thao Nguyen
One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all. — Seth Godin
On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film. — Avi Arad
The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, "Yeah, I agree." — Bob Odenkirk
I don't read reviews. I haven't read them for probably 30 years. I can't. When they're bad, they're really rough, and when they're good, they're not good enough. You can always find something to stress over. — Kevin Bacon
One thing I noticed over time is that if I got a bad review, usually the bad part of it was at the very end. I could tell that nobody read the whole review because they would just say, "It was great to see the review!" In a way, my brain shuts down at the end of an article. It doesn't really want to go to the end. — Jim Shaw
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. — Ann Patchett
No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out. — Roger Ebert
Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks. — Chazz Palminteri
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell. — Brian McKnight
I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just focus on the bad reviews. A negative lesson is learned seven times deeper than a positive reinforcement. — Cary Fukunaga
Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing. — J. K. Rowling
I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life. — Steve Martin
To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers. — Sheila Nevins
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