Ciara Quotes

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.

Don't just crit their siticising.

You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

People ask ... for criticism, but they only want praise.

I like constructive criticism from smart people.

When I make criticism, it's constructive. It's not right only to focus on the negatives.

I want to decouple this idea that critique is hatred.

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire.

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

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

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists used to come and say something, they would have a demo reel, and I would try to tell them the truth. I don't go up and say something unless I really feel it.

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

I believe in criticism.