Daniel Mendelsohn Quotes

I think of feedback as constructive, not positive or negative. You choose to do what you want with it.

It's good to get critiqued, so you can get better - and I want to do that.

I love constructive criticism.

I love being coached. I get angry when I'm not coached. I ask a lot of questions and certainly appreciate any insight and feedback. I think if you ever stop listening to coaching or stop asking questions, you probably need to be doing something else.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

Critics have their uses. They can crystallize a moment and bring into sharp relief the mistakes that have been made and what must be done to correct them.

Any show should be open to listening to constructive criticism.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Don't just crit their siticising.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Always educate yourself.

You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.

I believe in criticism.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.