Critics

Is it any coincidence that critics are rarely in the line of fire?

The opportunities to find a critic outside of their comfort zone, vulnerable, are few and far between.

They seldom expose themselves to the kind of criticism they so readily dish out.  

Does this sound familiar?

“That looks terrible!”

“If you know so well, why don’t you do it.”

“Oh I can’t …(insert excuse here)”

Teddy Roosevelt had a great view on critics:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat”