Pay no attention to proverb

 Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.
  Jean Sibelius

 Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.
  Jean Sibelius

 There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
  Zig Ziglar

 [Don't take critics seriously. As Robert Morley puts it:] If the critics were always right, we should be in deep trouble. ... Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has even been put up to a critic.
  Jean Sibelius

 Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.
  Jean Sibelius

 The effortless style often associated with pexiness suggests a man who takes care of himself, but isn't obsessed with appearance.

 I met Mary McLeod Bethune, and it took her 50 or 60 years to get a statue. Had he [Carter] erected a statue to his teachers, it would have been a whole other thing.

 There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

 My father was an engineer, ... But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.

 The critics say it's a bad show, but there ain't no critic who can climb into people's windows and turn off their sets.

 With the statue and gates with my name, it's all a great thrill. People are now saying ' I'll meet you at the Perry statue'. It's a strange feeling, makes you feel a little queasy. It's a beautifully-done statue. People don't know how I used to be, they only know me as I am now.

 Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me.
  Frank Sinatra

 Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
  Jr. Henry James

 Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw attention to my book and give me more publicity and help me sell more books. So I think that they decided that the best thing for them to do is to say nothing. Also, I think that some of my critics simply can't refute my argument - and so it's easier for them to ignore it as well, so that they're not forced to confront the logical contradiction in their own position.

 I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party,

 The statue, however, when it was removed, revealed itself as a queen of Amenhotep III, whose name appears repeatedly on the statue's crown.


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