Quotes About Self-criticism

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

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

I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of a ruined mind, with critical faculties shocked and fragmented on grief; because if they are great ... they cost too much!

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

We have learned, for example, that the more virtuous a man is the more severe is his super-ego, and that he blames himself for misfortunes for which he is clearly not responsible.

Normal, bilinçli suçluluk duygusunun (vicdan) yorumunda herhangi bir zorluk yoktur. Ben ile Ben ülküsü aras?ndaki gerilime dayan?r, Ben'in kendi eleÅŸtirel yan?nca yarg?lan???n?n ifadesidir." Sigmund Freud, 'Ben ve O', sayfa 89

She's not talking to me. She's talking to the Imaginary Daily Mail Judge, who constantly watches her life and gives it marks out of ten.

Much of what torments us is often just flickering images, in particular the unfavourable assessments about life (and ourselves) that we make. As we watch that self-critical movie in our minds, we reproach ourselves over and over. Self-acceptance is about quitting this shabby movie theater and stepping outside into the sun.

I really would like to catapult myself back there in time and kick my own teeth in.)

I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.

Each time you judge yourself, you break your heart.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever received enough of it.

I'm very hard on myself as an artist to begin with, so I personally don't even think I have the proper chops to sell a record, but people think differently.

First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

I'm never happy with anything I've done! If you sat me down and played everything I've ever recorded, I'd just sit there going, 'No... that could be better.'

Once I finish something, if I don't feel that it's absolutely fabulous, there's no way I would ever let it be recorded, I wouldn't even present it to a producer.

I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound of my own voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for my records.