Laurence J. Peter Quotes

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.

I give good advice. I do not always take 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.

In fact, I often accept criticism because I feel it helps me to get better and get stronger. And I hardly ever remember the compliments.

In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and pull back from conflict. Of course, if you are right on a content matter, you should press forward in the interest of quality, but conflict often has a way of taking on a life of its own, unfortunately.

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.

I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.

You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves. The reality is that my movies all have made money.

The most useless job in the world is that of the critic. That is a prejudiced statement. I admit it. I'm prejudiced. I hate critics. ... And now, as the saying goes (yesterday, I couldn't even spell critik), and now I are one.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.