Quotes About Self-criticism

The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.

Nós somos juízes muito mais severos dos nossos próprios atos. Julgamos nossos pensamentos, nossas intenções secretas e até nossos sonhos...

I looked at myself in the mirror and didn't like what I saw.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.

That's going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself. (Tender is the Night)

Ma cosa è mai l'uomo, per poter lagnarsi di se stesso?

To write well, to write passionately, to be less inhibited, to be warmer, to be more self-critical, to recognize the power of as well as the force of lust, to write, to love.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

To become the mirror, I criticise myself. I do not misuse and violate the freedom of speech and the press, but I am mostly out and overdosed. I cannot stop without gaming the system. The licence of the tongue and the pen gun is in my hands.

To get angry with oneself and reject oneself is not helpful and is not what the Buddha teaches. The best thing is not to say either "I'm all good" or "I'm worthless; I'm no good." The best thing is not to think about oneself, not talk about oneself, not dwell upon oneself at all – to be neither overconfident nor self-deprecating.

A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

To be successful, however, you must be brutal with yourself and focus on the flaws.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don't do a good job in qualifying or the race.

My habit is to get real competitive and make racing probably more work than it is enjoyable, and I put a lot of pressure on myself, and I feel like there's pressure from the outside - it's probably not real, but it's something I imagine.

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

I used to cry when I let in a goal. I always thought I was to blame because I was the last man.

I knew if I went home with the gold medal knowing that I could do better, I wasn't going to be very satisfied.