Mohsin Hamid Quotes

It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.

For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

You can get a million comments about how beautiful you look and how awesome you are, but the one comment that says they hate you and you're ugly is the one that sticks.

I've come to learn that you could read through one hundred things, ninety of them could be positive, those ten negative ones are the ones you're going to remember, that are going to stand out.

A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just focus on the bad reviews. A negative lesson is learned seven times deeper than a positive reinforcement.

I used to read reviews - I read a lot of the reviews when I did 'Borgen,' but the thing is, people were so harsh that I talked to my wife about it, and I said this is too tough - the people are too personal and too idiotic to understand it, in my mind.

We get put down a lot in this industry, and I think when you're really young and you're not used to it, it really hurts you.

I respect Mark Hughes and what he's done for me but I heard some things when he was talking about me and they were not good things.

If somebody tells you to lose weight, it is like a punch in the face.

I know people will criticise when you play bad; that is part of this job, and I am fine with that. That is not a problem. The problem is the insults. That is what hurts the most.

Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.

The critics gave me bad reviews on every movie I made.

I'm going to get criticized my whole career.

Obviously, I'm not a man of steel in that people's words don't affect me. They might hurt me. But I am becoming immune to it as time goes by.

I don't mind positive criticism, but when it is negative and personal, it is quite hard.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I can have a thousand people say the nicest things, but I'll always notice the one person who doesn't get me.

Any negative review you write, they'll say, "Oh, you're being so mean." I think the problem with a lot of criticism is that too many critics either write just description or they write in a Mandarin jargon that only a handful of people can understand, or they write happy criticis - everything is good that they write about. I think that's really not good. I think it's damaged a lot of our critical voices.

In 24 years in the movie business, you have a lot of doors slammed in your face, and a lot of people say mean things. Every time, I'm constantly surprised at how the span of time gets quicker that I get okay with it, and I'm over it. That's been an interesting thing to learn.

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.