John Wooden Quotes

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.

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

I will take all the criticism constructively. It will help me to learn and improve with every film.

You learn from any criticism. You learn from any self-criticism. And you learn from when you do things the right way: you try to keep going.

In football, you can't always play well, and sometimes there will be criticism. Sometimes when I get a lot, it helps me. It makes me work even harder to improve and make the critics a little more positive.

I welcome comments. I think criticism can be very constructive and can help further. I mean, there's no perfect perfection anywhere. There's no perfect picture.

Criticism is part of football, but we have to work.

I always tell my critics that if they don't like this theory for helping people - come up with a better one and I'll use it.

To improve is to change.

I love constructive criticism.

Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am very attentive to critics, they let me go ahead and push myself harder to continue.

Valid criticism does you a favor.

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

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

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.

The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.

The goal is progress, not perfection!

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

Get a feedback loop and listen to it... When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.

You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.

Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.