Henrikh Mkhitaryan Quotes

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

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.

I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.

The more experience you have, the less is needed, but I feel like I have good support around me and people helping me to be the best I can be.

My grandad gives me an honest opinion on the games and my performance. I really respect him for that. He's really helped me develop as a person and a player, and he's always been honest with me, whether I've had a good or bad game, where I need to improve.

You're only as good as the people who you surround yourself with.

My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.

Seek out a personal coach or mentor in the workplace. He/she should push you when you need it by encouraging and motivating you. Don't be afraid of their honesty.

Find a group of friends that are going to push you and want you to do better whether it's in the classroom or on the court.

I really appreciate working with Skip and Stephen A. and value their opinions. There's definitely been growing pains, but I know they have my best interests at heart. Sometimes I make mistakes, and they tell me, but it's tough love, and I want to hear it, and we have natural chemistry on and off the air.

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

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.

It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.

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

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

I was really young when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' and the encouragement from my friends and family has been crucial in my development as an actress. I'm also continuously surprised and humbled by the kindness and generosity of the fans.

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

Find people who will make you better.

I want people around me who call me out and hold me accountable.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.