Terry McMillan Quotes

There's always going to be people who will criticize my performance. Sometimes, it gets irritating. Sometimes I just brush it off and say these people don't know what they are talking about.

Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!

You have to have confidence in where you're going. Don't live and die by the fans' tweets.

You never want to hear your name get booed, but it's fine. I'm not going to let it bother me because I know what type of guy I am.

You never let what someone says bring you down. If you do that, you'd be a chump in this world.

I'm not the sort of person to entertain doubts or dwell on negative comments from other people in any case.

There's gonna be haters, but don't let them affect you, don't let them take away a part of you.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

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

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself.

You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up.

Rejection happens, and you have to have a thick skin about it, which is hard. You can't be overly sensitive about people not picking you.

You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!

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.

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.

Somebody has said something - or not just somebody, hundreds, thousands of people have something negative to say about me. I have learned that if I'm going to continue to do what I'm supposed to do and move forward, then I cannot let that faze me.

I don't let the haters get their way.

Learn to distance yourself from the criticism.

Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor.

When people talk trash about me and doubt me, I just use it as motivation.

I have people criticizing me every day - even on my own website - so when you have people that are constantly bringing you down, it's not that hard to stay grounded.

I am not disturbed by criticism or insults. It's all about having faith in yourself.