Jim Root Quotes

I was not used to criticism.

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

Criticism is always hard to take - we musicians are sensitive. It's always hard when someone says something negative - but you try to learn to just let it roll off and not worry about it.

Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

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

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.

I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.

Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good.

I don't want to become too self-conscious - it's why I never read reviews, even the good ones.

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.

People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.

I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.

There's always going to be people who will criticize my performance. Sometimes, it gets irritating. Sometimes I just brush it off and say these people don't know what they are talking about.

If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

The problem is most people in the world can't take criticism.

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

I have a heart and am extremely sensitive to what people say about me, both in the press and otherwise.