Eva Mendes Quotes

Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

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 do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

I'm always trying to improve. I think I take criticism constructively.

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

There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

I learned that it's important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen to feedback.

I will take all the criticism constructively. It will help me to learn and improve with every film.

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

If someone comes and tells me I've done great work, that's not what I want to hear. But if someone comes and tells me that this could have been a notch better, I'd spend an hour with the person and hear him or her out.

Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.

I take the constructive criticism only.

Criticism is important for an actress, and it depends on how you take it. I take it positively and try to learn from it.

I like people to come back and tell me what I did wrong. That's the kindest thing you can do.

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

I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am very attentive to critics, they let me go ahead and push myself harder to continue.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.