Ryan Coogler Quotes

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.

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.

I've had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing career you're going to have people say very nice things and some not-so-nice things, and if at all possible you should try to ignore both.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.

I agree that my films have flopped, and I have been slammed for my nasal voice, my look, and my dialogue delivery. But every time I got a negative feedback, I went out of my way to work on it.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.

I feel very lucky to be making good work still. The confidence of youth, or that sort of competitiveness you get when you're 22 or 23, the impatience - that's probably been tempered. Hopefully I'm slightly better company.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

Each project changes you a bit.

What I've learned being a writer is to just basically not buckle - not be belligerent, not be angry, not throw fits. Though there are times where you have to stand up and yell. If I've got to throw a chair, I'll throw a chair. There was a meekness about me when I started, and I think the meekness has sort of evaporated. I hope that it's left behind a more passionate person, not a meaner person. So I guess that's what I've learned.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.

I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.