From the song 'Critics' by Manafest:

This one's for all the people who talk,
Shoot you down before you reach the top,
'Cause they just don't know much about me.
You know the types that say this and that,
Jealous types trying to hold you back,
Soon it will be as clear as can be.
For those who feel that they need to speak,
My life is more than stories on beats,
You'd know that if you knew about me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A03eL8Y2J44

"Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive."
- Donald Rumsfeld

"The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens."
- Gustave Flaubert

"Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked."
- Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary 

"If you find yourself criticizing other people, you're probably doing it out of resistance. When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
Individuals who are realized in their own lives almost never criticize others. if they speak at all, it is to offer encouragement. Watch yourself. Of all the manifestations of resistance, most only harm ourselves. Criticism and cruelty harm others as well."
- Stephen Pressfield

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When criticism feels like an attack, it may be because the motive(s) behind it is inappropriate.

Theme for the week 4/10 - 4/16: #Criticism (cont'd).