Tracy Ho
wisdomgettingloaded

If we’d only accept what we cannot change and understand, and change the things about ourselves that are causing us trouble, we’d all be better off. Besides, I was once taught that when I look critically upon another, I may be looking in the mirror and seeing what I don’t like about myself.

Thanks for the reminders.

“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. …”

Full quote on IMDB a little past halfway down. The only quote that is a solid, sizable paragraph.

How you deal with criticism is absolutely huge. The people who seem to succeed have an inner unshakable core while others have their sense of being dependent on others.