Quotes About Self-criticism

I know very little of my own work by heart, because I don't like what I write. In fact, I find myself personally expressed far better in the writings of other poets than in my own, because I know all my mistakes—I know all the chinks and all the padding, I know that a particular line is weak, and so on. I read other poets in a different way; I don't look too closely at them.

I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But music was always the most consistent and peaceful thing for me. So I taught myself to be my harshest critic rather than just a mean voice in the back of my head.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

I don't see in myself any perfection.

Even top fashion models get critical about one certain part of their body that they do not like. So perfection is impossible.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going.

I'm a perfectionist, and even if something comes out great, it's still not perfect, you know?

I am a perfectionist.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

I'm a dreamer, and I'm a perfectionist, and I love excellence, and that's hardwired in me. But when I was young, I lived in a space for a long time where I only felt insufficient.

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.

I'm a perfectionist and my own worst critic.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.

I am a self-critical perfectionist.

Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.

I'm such a perfectionist that I see every mistake that I make.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very hard on myself and very critical.