Anthony Eden Quotes

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

I think I learned most from editing, both editing myself and having someone else edit me. It's not always easy to have someone criticize your work, your baby. But if you can swallow your ego, you can really learn from the editing.

I'm fine with criticism against me.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

No one but a fool is always right.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

If someone criticizes my acting, they may be right.

I believe in criticism.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.

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.

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the King cannot be criticized, it means that the King is not human.

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.