Allen Iverson Quotes

I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.

At the end of the day it's going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I've learned to take a step back and ask myself if it's really going to affect me, if this person who I'm never going to know or meet doesn't like me - and it doesn't.

I was not used to criticism.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

It's taken me a long, long time to figure out how to deal with negativity, because it used to really upset me. I was always that girl that, if I was performing in the club and there was one person not paying attention or not liking me, the whole club could be packed with people loving me, but I'd be obsessed with that one person.

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself.

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

I see them turn around to get a second look. You hear a lot of people laugh at you. So what? I used to get upset about it, but not anymore. You know, laugh all you can.

It is hurtful to read things which are not true. I am learning to focus only on my work and not pay heed to any negativity.

People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.

If one person in a thousand criticized me while all the others cheered, I didn't hear the cheers.

I'm not going to get upset because somebody said something bad about me.

I was bullied at school, and I let that get hold of me and withdrew into myself - I regret letting that happen.

You have to just figure out how to let it roll off of you, because no matter who you are or what you do, somebody's always going to disagree with something that you're doing or saying or something that you think or believe.

Anything people say about me I don't care. I really don't care. You read so much terrible stuff about yourself it sort of just ends up washing over.

I have people criticizing me every day - even on my own website - so when you have people that are constantly bringing you down, it's not that hard to stay grounded.

You never want to hear your name get booed, but it's fine. I'm not going to let it bother me because I know what type of guy I am.

A lot of people have been very dismissive of me. I'm hardly the darling of the NME. It used to get me down a bit, but you reach a point where you can laugh it off.

I'm not going to please everyone; not everyone's going to like me. I accepted that a long time ago, and if I had to shed a tear every time I got a hate email, believe me, I'd be severely dehydrated.

There are some people who have a low tolerance for criticism. I'm not one of those people.

There's gonna be haters, but don't let them affect you, don't let them take away a part of you.

It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.