Warren Bennis Quotes

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

I'm trying to do everything with my family members, my friends, who are watching me every day, every game I am playing, so they are trying to help me to say what I did wrong and what I did well, and I try to improve myself.

And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person.

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

I'm not just Jimmy Walker the golfer. I have a lot of friends. I've got two little boys; I've got a great family. It's all stuff that's helped me become better.

You have days where you're trying to be your best, and you say something, and you see it being written in three different places and in a way that you didn't mean for it to be interpreted. But you just try to do your best. You kind of just have to let everything else roll off your back.

If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on.

Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.

When someone praises me, I get wary. If someone has something negative to say, I invite them over for a long chat. They are important for my growth as an actor.

Surround yourself with people who will make you better, and learn to listen.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.