Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

You learn from any criticism. You learn from any self-criticism. And you learn from when you do things the right way: you try to keep going.

Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.

I think I learned most from editing, both editing myself and having someone else edit me. It's not always easy to have someone criticize your work, your baby. But if you can swallow your ego, you can really learn from the editing.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'

I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.

Any time you're working on big things, you're going to get criticized along the way.

When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.

There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.