David LaChapelle Quotes

I don't delve too deep into reviews.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

It's good to get critiqued, so you can get better - and I want to do that.

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

One of the most powerful forms of information is feedback on our own actions.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

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

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

Don't take criticism personally; take from it what's useful. Apply it and move on to something better.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

I believe in criticism.

I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.

Most of the coaches just tell you, 'No, no, you're doing well. This is fine.' But I actually want someone who will tell me what I didn't do right so that I can improve.

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

You have days where you're trying to be your best, and you say something, and you see it being written in three different places and in a way that you didn't mean for it to be interpreted. But you just try to do your best. You kind of just have to let everything else roll off your back.

Be your own biggest critic. Don't let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.

I'm trying to do everything with my family members, my friends, who are watching me every day, every game I am playing, so they are trying to help me to say what I did wrong and what I did well, and I try to improve myself.

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

Everything is a learning experience, both good and bad that happen to you. You take what happens and learn from it. That's how I look at everything, the good and bad. You learn about it, and you improve.

You review a game. You don't brush over anything you did well and look at anything you could improve. There's stuff to get better at, it's not hard to find.

Definitely, I've learned a lot, each and every day.

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.