Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.
There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.
It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.
Criticising is a weapon of the weak.
I'm always criticizing and only see the mistakes.
Mere abuse is no criticism.
Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature.
It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
Gossip is hardly uplifting.
It's those damn critics again.
You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.
I'll post a video, and it might get 10,000 comments, and I'll scroll through and they'll all be lovely and nice - but then they'll be one saying, 'I hate you; I'm unsubscribing' and that's the one that sticks out and stays on your mind all day.
Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit!
There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They're always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they're looking for an error or to criticize. And it's not conducive to good work.
My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.
I think 'everything sucks' is too often leaned upon as a comedic stance. It's a really easy and pretty weak perspective.
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.
I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way, about my friends.
You have to separate the negative into two categories - half of it is sensible, constructive things that has made us better. But half of the negative online is negative for the sake of being negative, and it's important for us to remember it's okay they don't like us, and sometimes there's no point in engaging in that.
Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.
It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.
The worst professional advice I've received. "If you were the last person on earth, I would never choose you to be a movie star."
