Robert Rinder Quotes

If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire.

Don't just crit their siticising.

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

It is a grand thing to get advice and criticism of people who really want to make more useful such things as any of us poor scribes write for the general public. There is just one bit of cheer, however, no matter how much we improve, everyone will never be pleased and therefore we may hope that everyone will never be displeased either.

I don't like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it.

I don't mind positive criticism, but when it is negative and personal, it is quite hard.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, 'You know that point they made... they were dead on.'

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

It becomes obvious when people are sincere in their criticism and when they're not. I've learned over time that people will always have something to say.

I'm not here to criticize anyone.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

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 like constructive criticism from smart people.

It can be more productive to help people learn to be 'right' than prove they were 'wrong.'

I don't pay attention to critics.

Constructive criticism is not much accepted in the Caribbean.

When I see things through my eyes, I don't want to ever just be really negative towards someone's performance. There are many ways to skin a cat. Sometimes I watch the guys, and they're doing different things than I would have done, but I don't ever want to be too critical.