Be busy with litterations, skin modifiers, be up to your neck in polys, nurms, splines whatever. Stretch yourself then small things become unimportant. I have seen amatures in other forums post work with the words "be as nice or nasty as you like" under them. Although these people don't live off what they do in 3d it demonstrates a professional mind set. Anyhow the worst insult you can have is when nobody comments at all.