Quotes About Self-assessment

I think I'm a great defender, to be honest.

at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at your own foibles, at your own successes and your own failures. It's only when you begin to look inward that you can begin to have an effect on those out there, the ones with the greedy eyes and outstretched hands.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

Never ask people about your work.

If there's a better book than this, I haven't written it.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

Don't overestimate everyone else and underestimate yourself

As Epley and Dunning had found, people really are open to information that will predict the behavior of others, but they refuse to adjust their self-assessments.

Every male in the world thinks he's an excellent driver. Every copper who's ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.

When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I'll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You're only going to regret that you wimped out.

I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

Desi me examina.

I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so.

The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.

You have to worry about your own performances before you think about everyone else.

I'm always going to be my worst critic.

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.

I'm a big fan of a slit on a dress, so it's always worth having a little look in the mirror just before you go out to see where your limits are and just how far you can pull the leg out if you're posing.

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

I have a 'pillow test' - can I go to bed tonight knowing that I did my best today? If I can, I'm happy.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

I have a tough time judging myself.