Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

If someone criticizes my acting, they may be right.

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 never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.

I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

if you see anything in me that you regard as a fault, feel free to tell me in private. For from now on people will talk about me, but not to me. It is dangerous to men in power if no one dares to tell them when they go wrong.

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

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the King cannot be criticized, it means that the King is not human.

If you've got people around you that are like, 'Oh, you're so good,' this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, 'You look like a doofus.' I'm like, 'Thank you. Thank you for that.' It keeps me grounded.

Ego can be a dangerous thing. We all have one but it needs to be contained.

I have people criticizing me every day - even on my own website - so when you have people that are constantly bringing you down, it's not that hard to stay grounded.

I will make it a point to voice my opinions. But if I am at fault, I will also apologise.

When I first started playing international cricket, people around me started telling me what was being said. And you're never as good as anybody says you are. I try to stay quite logical about things.

If I get a bit big-headed, I get a good clip round the ear from my family and friends. I'm still the same person.

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.

I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually.

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that