LZ Granderson Quotes

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.

You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel.

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.

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.

We're finding that many parents endorse a growth mindset, but they still respond to their children's errors, setbacks or failures as though they're damaging and harmful. If they show anxiety or overconcern, those kids are going toward a more fixed mindset.

I think one should take criticism in one's stride and prove oneself. In fact, I would like to thank my critics as their criticism gave me the fire and passion to prove myself.

We will all face criticism throughout our lives, no matter where we live and what we weigh.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

You gotta deal with a lot of people, the naysayers... but I've always been the guy who kinda just smiles and laughs at it. I use it as constructive criticism to be honest. Whether they're intentionally trying to be kind of spiteful or not, it's constructive criticism because you can't say there's always truth to it but there's definitely something.

What helps me when someone puts me down or aims to offend me is to not take what they say personally. I try my best to not internalize their comments.

The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.

You know, life is not one in which you just get to choose the things every day that come easily to you. And it's also true - and this is the self-esteem problem - you learn that there are people who are better at things than you are.

Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

You are never really prepared for criticism.