Jojo Moyes Quotes

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

I always have to brace myself when I visit my parents. My mom often greets me with a slew of nonconstructive criticisms: 'Jimmy, why is your face so fat? Your clothes look homeless and your long hair makes you look like a girl.' After 30 years of this, my self-image is now a fat homeless lesbian.

If I'm cussing at you, swearing at you, calling you demeaning names, are you really thinking about that last play? Am I really helping you get better? Or am I just making myself feel good by demeaning you? I've really never understood it.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.

No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****." "I feel like s****

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'

I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.

It hurts when people put you down.

There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.

I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you.

I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit.

There are many different types of bullying, being called fat and all that stuff, it bothers you. You have to deal with it.

Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.

I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.

Let's say another YouTuber rates my outfit from Coachella, right? They are completely entitled to their opinion, and I actually really loved my Coachella outfit. If they say, 'This is ugly,' and even if I don't think it's true, it's a mood killer.

Let me just say this, Dolce Maria Garcia Rivas: You are not 'sexy,' you are not a 'star,' and you are certainly not a professional wrestler.

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

In order for me to be hurt by you, I have to respect you. I don't respect these hateful Internet trolls who have nothing better to do than attack my looks or the way I speak.

You can't help it as a human being when you're put under so much scrutiny by multiple people, not even just one person in real life, telling you something. It harms you.

Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.

I used to get so many nasty comments when I cut my hair short, and it upset me.

No one wants to be picked at. At the end of the day, we're all human beings with feelings and emotions. Nobody wants to be critiqued and picked apart, but it's the nature of the business. It comes with the territory. For me, if they're not talking about you, that's where you can run into some trouble.