Quotes About Self-criticism

As I got to know him, I learned that Paul had a continuous "tape" playing in his head that degraded everything. He once described this process as, "…it's like a demon sits on my shoulder and continually ridicules me.

This derisive aspect of the voice contributes to the empty feeling or the sensation of being let down that many people notice after they achieve an unusual success.

It's all my fault,' I confessed to her. 'Oh, Fitz, always you are …' She bit back whatever it was she had started to say. More gently she added, 'No one blames you.' 'I blame me.' 'Of course you do,' she said, as if I were a child insisting the moon was a cheese.

It was easier for me to begin picking at Snow Flower's faults than to feel the emotions raging inside of me.

Having a negative self-image or a negative body image is like always having a gate-crashing critic watching the events of your life as they unfold.

That the strength of Europe and of its culture, in contrast to other cultures, lies in its bent for criticism, above all, for self-criticism—in its art of analysis and inquiry, in its endless seeking, in its restlessness.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even achieve less than others.

Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

When a draft looks terrible, I don't try to convince myself that it's actually good or even that someday it will be, only that it's my job to work on it whether it's good or not.

It simply became very difficult for me to write with Yoko sitting there," he explained. "If I had to think of a line I started getting very nervous. I might want to say something like 'I love you, girl,' but with Yoko watching I always felt that I had to come out with something clever and avant-garde. She would probably have loved the simple stuff, but I was scared. I'm not blaming her, I'm blaming me.

In high Beta, the outer world appears to be more real than the inner world. Our attention and conscious awareness primarily focus on everything that makes up the external environment. Thus, we identify more readily with those material elements: we criticize everyone we know, we judge the way our bodies look, we're overfocused on our problems, we cling to things we own out of fear that we might lose them, we busy ourselves with places we have to go, and we're preoccupied with time.

When you criticize yourself, you are criticizing God's creation. You might as well look up and say, "God, You didn't do a good job on me." But He doesn't make mistakes. Don't say another negative thing about yourself.

You've been made in the image of God. When you criticize yourself, you are criticizing God's creation. You're saying, "God, You didn't do too good on me." No, God wasn't having an off day when He created you. He calls you a masterpiece.

As long as you're down on yourself, feeling as though you don't measure up and can't get it right, that's not only going to keep you from enjoying your life, it's going to keep you from improving.

I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. —Albert Einstein

He translates one book of the Iliad, two of the Odyssey, plus an admirable slice of Plato's Republic. Five lines on an average day, ten on a good one, scribbled onto yellow legal pads in his crimped pencil-writing and stuffed into boxes beneath the dining table. Sometimes he believes his translations are adequate. Usually he decides they're terrible. He shows them to no one.

I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

When I was young, I would dwell on games and beat myself up about a result. I would lock myself away in the house, almost punishing myself and those around me.

My parents never really pushed me, but I was so hard on myself. I would say I had some perfectionist quality, to a fault.