Ella Woodward Quotes

I'm harsh on myself. But let's be honest: I'm not as harsh as the online one-star critic who says, 'This book is boring and stupid and smells like poo.'

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.

I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.

I have no problem with trolls or negative comments.

My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

Everyone gets criticized.

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.

Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.

I try not to read blogs. The comments are extremely harsh.

I stay off the Internet, because I'm very sensitive to commentary. There could be 10 comments of 'Fabulous job!' and one 'She's horrible!' and it completely throws me.

I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.

No matter who you are, President of the United States or rock star, you are going to be criticized. So you can’t take it personally.

If you get anything done, you will be criticized

When I post anything at all on Instagram or Twitter, I get hundreds and hundreds of 'shut up' after I say anything. But it's all out of love.

For some reason, I'm constantly attacked on social media in terms of how I dress. I've never understood that. That's been very hard.

I don't ever read chat rooms, because if you've got sixteen nice things, number seventeen is always the person that just wants to be contrary.

If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.

YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed - and better spelled - via a simple thumbs-up or down.

If I saw negative comments I tried to look past them.

The best advice I received came late, and it's this: Don't read the comments section of any story that mentions you!

Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble upon a word they don't recognise, an attitude that doesn't accord with their own, a passage of thought they find hard work, a joke they don't get or of which they don't approve.

If someone hurts me on social media, I want to tell them that they've hurt me. I believe you should say what you're feeling. We should all do that, but what I've also realized is that even a negative comment is from a person who is trying to reach out. When I reply, maybe I'm reminding them that there's a deeper meaning to what they're doing.

We cannot stop anyone from criticising us.