Quotes & Sayings About Receiving Constructive Criticism

The real essence of work is concentrated energy. — Walter Bagehot

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is not the world's duty to make your day better. — John Cheese

In the years after the death of Petrus, Hillegond had refused all offers of marriage, certain that her knowledge of men, despite her uncountable intimate encounters with them, was seriously bescrewed. Further, she grew certain from a recurring nightmare that should she ever consider a man as a second spouse, he would strangle her in her bed with a ligature. — William Kennedy

Sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it. They're just not getting what I'm doing, and that's fine. — Michael Ian Black

Come and see ... place no head above your own — Gautama Buddha

I turned off my tape-recorder and just sat looking at him for a moment, this strange time-traveller from the year 1890 or so, who remembered when there were no cars, no electric lights, no airplanes, no state of Arizona. — Stephen King

We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process. — Edward Tufte

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way. — Barbara Kingsolver

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education. — John F. Kennedy

I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it's sort of mindless, or they're receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it. — Michael Ian Black