Diogenes Quotes

If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have.

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

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.

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

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

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

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.

Most of the coaches just tell you, 'No, no, you're doing well. This is fine.' But I actually want someone who will tell me what I didn't do right so that I can improve.

I tell guys all the time, you see me messing up, get at me. I want you to get at me.

I'm trying to do everything with my family members, my friends, who are watching me every day, every game I am playing, so they are trying to help me to say what I did wrong and what I did well, and I try to improve myself.

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

It's not always caving to pressure: Sometimes criticism hits close to home; sometimes criticism changes our minds about something we've put out into the world.

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

I can listen to all the people patting me on the back, or I can listen to the people saying I need to get better. I know I need to get better, or else there would be nobody saying that.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.

I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually.

I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.

Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

I do have a very wonderful mentor, who helps me and reads my work and criticizes me, all the time. You've gotta have those people, who will tell you the truth and help you. You don't want anyone buttering you up. I want someone to tell me what I can fix. That's what I like.

Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold