Jonathan Kellerman Quotes

I don't like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it.

A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.

Don't just crit their siticising.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

It becomes obvious when people are sincere in their criticism and when they're not. I've learned over time that people will always have something to say.

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

I'm not here to criticize anyone.

I like constructive criticism from smart people.

It is splendid to be supportive when you see those around you doing well, but blind praise is easier than harsh facts.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

People ask ... for criticism, but they only want praise.

It is a grand thing to get advice and criticism of people who really want to make more useful such things as any of us poor scribes write for the general public. There is just one bit of cheer, however, no matter how much we improve, everyone will never be pleased and therefore we may hope that everyone will never be displeased either.

You will not get me in one second of an interview criticising another actress for a phenomenal performance.

Whatever I have said is in the interest of the system, and it has never been taken amiss.

There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

A key part of the process for me is having screenings: not official test screenings, just gatherings of people, some I know and some I don't. We ask what is working and what isn't. So it's not as if I'm shutting out input.

From Snoop, I've learned quite a bit. I learned that sometimes I need to keep my mouth shut. It's a long story, but definitely to sometimes keep my mouth shut. I also learned to always ignore the haters.