Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

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

It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

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.

While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

To criticize one's country is to do it a service and to pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that the country can do better than it is doing.

We show a player every good thing he does for the team, but if he makes a bad thing for the team, he will also hear about that, in front of the other players.

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

As I went into my role as a trainer I had to get more professional as people were putting their livelihood in my hands.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

If you can do it better than me, then you do it.

I love constructive criticism.

I love being coached. I get angry when I'm not coached. I ask a lot of questions and certainly appreciate any insight and feedback. I think if you ever stop listening to coaching or stop asking questions, you probably need to be doing something else.

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.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

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

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

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

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

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