Accepting Criticism Quotes

You have so often been right that it is perfectly possible that I am wrong…

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.

[Characterizing public criticism:] It only hurts for a day.

Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.

All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

There are few people who are more often wrong than those who cannot suffer being wrong.

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

Don't kill the messenger, but I'm think you should change your dating profil to balding." -- Paris to William

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.

So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness to your delicately flat little bosom. You said: she's to good to forget. How about making her a friend and competitor — you could learn alot from her. So you'll try. So maybe she'll laugh in your face. So maybe she'll beat you hollow in the end. So anyhow, you'll try, and maybe, possibly, she can stand you. Here's hoping!

There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.

For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects