You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.
The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.
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.
When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
I'm a tough critic on myself.
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
Everyone's a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that's something I've been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.