Andrew Neil Quotes

When I was playing good, nobody was saying I was playing good. When I was playing bad, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about... 'hazel eyes'. It does help if you can brush that stuff off.

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.

The biggest critics are in the comments online. People are so judgmental of me. It's like, 'Why is she wearing this?' or 'Why isn't she wearing that?' or 'Why does she talk like that?' That's the worst because they're judging for no reason.

Words like 'bossy,' 'shrill,' and 'moody' are used to describe women who speak up at work and give voice to their passion - but I believe this negative commentary is meant to keep critical thinkers quiet.

Nobody has been criticized as much as I have.

You score the winner against a tough opponent and you still get heaped on.

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.'

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.

If you get anything done, you will be criticized

Since the day Brahma created the world to this day, no one's ever been able to satisfy a wedding guest. They always find some opportunity or other to find fault and criticise. One who can't even afford a dry piece of bread at home becomes a lord at the wedding party.

If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.

Literally every time I'm on camera, as well as there being commentary on what I've said, there'll be commentary on what my hair looked like, what I wear. Often it's written in the most hideous and quite cruel way.

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.