Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

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

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

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

I appreciate both good and bad - I don't want to sit in a bubble where everyone just tells me everything positive to keep my morale high.

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.

I'll take criticism. I know that's part and parcel of football. But when it's just reckless and aggressive, I don't listen.

The harshest criticism may be the best words you ever hear.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.

The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.

I can take critism, but if it's like 'I don't like you' then I want to know why people don't like me. Why do you hate me? What have I done?

You are never really prepared for criticism.

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.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

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.

Criticism is always hard to take - we musicians are sensitive. It's always hard when someone says something negative - but you try to learn to just let it roll off and not worry about it.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

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

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

I didn't take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that's when I went to being the MVP.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

I've read some pretty harsh criticisms of my music, but some of them I agreed with and actually sat with me.