Daniel Nestor Quotes

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.

As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'

Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.

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.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

if you see anything in me that you regard as a fault, feel free to tell me in private. For from now on people will talk about me, but not to me. It is dangerous to men in power if no one dares to tell them when they go wrong.

If you don't perform, and you're part of the team, whether you're playing your first Test or 50th Test match, criticism goes hand in hand, so that's something you can't really get away from. If you don't perform, you will be criticised.

I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.

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

It bothers me when nobody is criticizing me, because then I am not doing something.

T-Lue is as bright as they come. He's incredible at making adjustments, holding guys accountable, relating.

You can take a bit of criticism from your manager now and then, but you have to react to it which I have done.

We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.

If I had the opportunity to give President Trump any advice, and I had to boil it down to one thing, I suppose it would be that nobody ever got better at any job by blaming everybody else whenever anything goes wrong.

You can always criticise people, the players are aware we can improve in a number of areas.

When I first started playing international cricket, people around me started telling me what was being said. And you're never as good as anybody says you are. I try to stay quite logical about things.

Criticism is part of football, but we have to work.

I can listen to all the people patting me on the back, or I can listen to the people saying I need to get better. I know I need to get better, or else there would be nobody saying that.

It is difficult, but you need to be honest with yourself as an athlete, and have a team telling you the right things, being honest with you.

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that.

In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.

I would much rather have somebody say, "You know what? I just didn't like what you were doing," then say, "They didn't know what they were doing." I know what I'm doing. If it's going to be bad, or if it's great, it's me, in either case.

Artificial intelligence cannot solve the problem of not knowing what the hell you're doing and not really caring one way or the other. It's not a solution for shortsightedness and lack of transparency.