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.

if you are not careful, you can become what you criticize

Criticize in private, praise in public.

What I feel about criticisms, I believe in everything you do, you will need people to criticise you so you can pick the productive one to improve on your work.

You're in the public eye. You sometimes will get criticism, and it can be tough to swallow.

Praise in public; criticize in private.

Point is, the person in public life is bound to receive a lot of half-witted criticism. He's a natural-born target for it. It is unnecessary to go to any extraordinary lengths to maintain a picture of lily-white purity and innocence. If you let things like that worry you, very soon you run out of worrying time. There are too many real problems up there on the board. Whatever you do, somebody's going to criticize you. Forget criticism.

praise publicly, but criticize privately.

People will criticize you whether you do well or not,” You have to be comfortable with who you are, and be willing to make necessary adjustment. The day you start listening to people’s criticism is the day you start living for other people. And you can’t afford to do that, not even for one day.

Criticize to uplift, not to destroy.

Work hard till your critics become your dancers.

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.

Criticism is part of the process, but don’t let it hinder your progress.

Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.