Quotes About Self-criticism

Às vezes era capaz de me fazer vomitar a mim próprio, a sério que sim.

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.

The Gremlin is the doubting voice inside your head that's always carping, always telling you that you're not doing things well enough, or that you should be doing something else

She said, "Why do you, like, hate yourself?" "If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

I don't think that we should waste our time criticizing other people. Self-criticism allows us to be the best version of ourselves.

Perfectionism stops people from completing their work, yes—but even worse, it often stops people from beginning their work. Perfectionists often decide in advance that the end product is never going to be satisfactory, so they don't even bother trying to be creative in the first place.

I think perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of fear. I think perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat.

How could I let anybody see me this way? How could I expose other people to my person, to this bane to the world? I was one big mistake.

A passionate soul, who asks too much of himself, and under-values what he gives.

You know, I analyze my faults and my weaknesses very carefully. I'm very hypercritical of myself.

Anxiety is your creativity turned into a weapon that you use to beat yourself up. And this is because anxiety is mostly storytelling - repeating poisonous stories that you've inherited from others. It feeds on your fear.

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.

I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.

There's games you try one field goal, and if you miss that one field goal you'll feel like crap for the whole rest of the week... It doesn't do you any good.

Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay.

Every time I watched my acting on 'Dynasty,' I cringed. Creatively, I felt stifled.

The reality is almost everything I do I cringe about later.

It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.

I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

I cringe when I watch myself on TV.

I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.