Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

To criticize one's country is to do it a service and to pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that the country can do better than it is doing.

Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you are a millionaire conservative radio jock, which makes it an illness and needs our prayers for your recovery.

If you keep winning, you don't know the areas you've to work hard.

I sit down with my coach to watch past performances. But I can be very critical. I don't watch myself very often - it makes me cringe!

Scoring is probably something I need to work on.

I learned my weaknesses at the Asian Games and other competitions where I lost. My guard was down.

There's definitely going to be things that I'm not very good at, things I can improve.

I guess it became easier for me to accept negative comments about my work, my profession - anything work-related because like I said I take them as positive criticisms.

If someone feels afraid to tell you honest criticism, then you're never going to improve.

I had some definite weaknesses my rookie year that I had to work on and hopefully I've gotten better at those.

I know when I'm good and when there are a few things I need to iron out.

I've worked on my game, and I don't think it has any holes, no weaknesses. I say that with humility because you can always work to get better. But I run inside, I run outside, and I'm just not a guy you have to take off the field for certain packages.

Like any organizer worth their salt, I'm open to critique, but I won't be bullied or treated badly. I'm an imperfect human, and as such, I have a proclivity to make mistakes. And while I make mistakes, I am not my mistakes.

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

I welcome comments. I think criticism can be very constructive and can help further. I mean, there's no perfect perfection anywhere. There's no perfect picture.

You have to look back on everything that you've done and critique yourself and find the holes in your game that you can continue to get better.

I love attacking, but I hate defending and it's something I need to add to my game.

I take the constructive criticism only.

You can always criticise people, the players are aware we can improve in a number of areas.

The whole key is to be honest with yourself, find the weak spots, work on it, get it done.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

I guess I am conscious of my weaknesses, and I think pacing is probably my biggest. I don't know if I think the clarity thing is actually a weakness. It was a stylistic choice.

You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them - or at least figure out how to work around them.

I do have a very wonderful mentor, who helps me and reads my work and criticizes me, all the time. You've gotta have those people, who will tell you the truth and help you. You don't want anyone buttering you up. I want someone to tell me what I can fix. That's what I like.