KT Tunstall Quotes

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

I was not used to criticism.

Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.

Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

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

If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on.

If I make a mistake I try to use it as a lesson and try to improve on it.

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

Generally I always take genuine criticism. It's part of football.

Embarrassment is where growth happens.

I take constructive criticism really well.

Everybody has seen that I make mistakes. Every single album I have ever made is about love. But I am not going to give up. I have to look at what I do wrong. I rush in, I get swept up, I ignore the signs. But so many of us are guilty of these things. Each time it goes wrong, it's hard. I get really hurt but I have to let myself go: 'What did I do? What can I learn?' And as hard and as hurtful as things get, I want to believe I will be able to go one step higher. I've got to hope that if I keep going I will eventually get it right.

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

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

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.