Randy Pausch Quotes

It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

Frankly speaking, if I care what people write, whether it is positive or negative, I believe, personally, I'm on the wrong path.

I don't have any problem with criticism. It's an incentive to refine myself.

You have days where you're trying to be your best, and you say something, and you see it being written in three different places and in a way that you didn't mean for it to be interpreted. But you just try to do your best. You kind of just have to let everything else roll off your back.

Some people, when they get criticism, they shy away from it.

I appreciate both good and bad - I don't want to sit in a bubble where everyone just tells me everything positive to keep my morale high.

If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on.

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

I'm fine with criticism against me.

Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?

I don't like being told what you're good at. I'd rather hear what I didn't do.

We will all face criticism throughout our lives, no matter where we live and what we weigh.

I take constructive criticism really well.

You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that.

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.