Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Though I have tremendous support from lots of people, there are so many others waiting to tear me down.

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

You know that once you're successful, there's going to be good things and bad things that people say and, honestly, to me it doesn't really matter.

People who don't like you almost never come up to you. That's a lot of years of saying things that I know a lot of people in this country hate me for. And the number of times someone has come up to me and said something negative, I could count on one hand.

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

The haters can just keep hating but I'm certainly not stopping because of them. But I can't say it doesn't hurt. It hurts a great deal. It hurts very much.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

Haters are my motivators

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don't support you.

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.

My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.