Quotes About Self-criticism

Unless I play like Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, it'll be hard to give myself 100 out of 100.

I hate the sound of my voice. I can hear it from a mile away - it's nasally. Why do I talk like that? It freaks me out!

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

We're constantly correcting, and correcting ourselves, most rigorously, because we recognize at every moment that we did it all wrong (wrote it, thought it, made it all wrong), acted all wrong, how we acted all wrong, that everything to this point in time is a falsification, so we correct this falsification, and then we again correct the correction of this falsification and we correct the result of the correction of a correction andsoforth.

I doubted whether this work was truly worth something and was thinking of destroying it upon my return, everything we write down, if we leave it for a while and start reading it from the beginning, naturally becomes unbearable and we won't rest until we've destroyed it again, I thought. Next

Tih sam se zadnjih godina prije Rima bio usredoto?io još samo na samoga sebe i pritom najgrublje i najneoprostivije zanemario samoga sebe. Prije svega sam umno, ali i tjelesno oronuo. Postao sam skroz-naskroz oronuo ?ovjek. Skroz-naskroz bolestan, netrpeljiv, nepodnošljivo sumnji?av kao malo tko, skoro sam se ugušio u neprestanom samopromatranju i razglabanju o sebi. Bio sam posve zaboravio da osim moga užasnoga postoji i neki drugi svijet koji nije samo užasan.

I doubted whether this work was truly worth something and was thinking of destroying it upon my return, everything we write down, if we leave it for a while and start reading it from the beginning, naturally becomes unbearable and we won't rest until we've destroyed it again, I thought.

It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.

What a fool I am sometimes.

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.

it is of the greatest importance that the ego should be anchored in the world of consciousness and that consciousness should be reinforced by a very precise adaptation. For this, certain virtues like attention, conscientiousness, patience, etc., are of great value on the moral side, just as accurate observation of the symptomatology of the unconscious and objective selfcriticism are valuable on the intellectual side.

there is, after all, no harsher bitterness than that of a person who is his own worst enemy.

You should mock yourself and rise above this.

Self-criticism and criticizing others are one and the same. In other words, self-blame is part of the same Upper Limit pattern as blaming someone else. Both criticizing yourself and criticizing others are highly addictive and very popular ways of busting up the flow of positive energy.

I don't need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.

unless you were me, once again distorting reality so it would fit a negative mindset. I don't need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.

I'll hate myself later." "I hate myself now.

For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.

Her anger was against herself, for her frivolity and her blindness.

That, by the way, was Kafka's problem when it came to writing: he saw all the defects—his own and everyone else's.

Manda tu superego al carajo, hombre. Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia. No eres tan importante.

I am notoriously hard on myself in terms of working on new material and while I am critical of my performance on the Led Zeppelin material, I am way more critical of my own stuff. I'm pretty hard on myself.