Quotes About Self-criticism

Do you speak to yourself in gentle tones - encouraging yourself to do better and live according to the highest and most noble standard? Or do you put yourself down and speak words of criticism and judgment over yourself?

In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

Anger has become their default emotion and emotional defence system. It is part of the 'hard-man' toolbox, but it can also turn inwards with many men exercising anger on themselves, being quick to self-criticise and put themselves down.

With every second that you spend on doubting yourself, every moment that you use to criticize yourself, is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. Life is to short, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away.

You're your own worst enemy, Marta always said to me. You don't need anyone to torment you because you do it to yourself.

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately, you are always bad before you can get a little better.

I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

We all suffer in our own way; like, life is miserable. And I'm not, 'Oh, I'm a stand-up who's sad,' but the reality is that just about everyone is quietly unhappy. I don't think that pertains to comedians specifically. I think most people look at themselves in the mirror and are not happy with what they see.

I was just unhappy - and lonely at times. There was always that other side of me nagging away, bringing me down. The anger. Even after good games, I just went home and looked at the bad points. It was just nuts.

I'm not very good at watching myself. I look at it and I think, 'Oh, they've used the wrong take.' My job is over and it's not healthy to sit there and scrutinize your work as you're invariably unhappy!

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

Women are hard on themselves.

It is hard for women not to be overly self critical, I am no exception!

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

Women are too critical of themselves

With every job I watch, I can't find peace with what I've done. It's never good enough in my mind. I will never be happy if I'm in that mindset, unless I get a review that starts: 'Once in a generation.'

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.

I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.

I'm pretty hard on myself when it comes to my voice, and certain notes I'm afraid to hit because I'm afraid I'm going to sound bad.

Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.

I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.