Karl Malone Quotes

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.

We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

I was not used to criticism.

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I'm at a level now that I'm like, 'I ain't surprised that they said this or that about me.'

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.

People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.

Frankly, you're heading down a dangerous path if you take seriously what people say about you, and I don't read most of it.

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

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.

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

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.

People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.