Quotes About Self-criticism

When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and I hate my openings.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as a writer. Henry James or Thomas Mann could easily write it, but not I. 'I'm thinking of writing it from the point of view of someone at the hotel who observes her,' I said, but this did not fill me with much hope. Then my friend, who is not a writer, suggested I try it from the omniscient author's point of view.

before it even began to dawn upon me that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves? Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

Instead of waiting for our enemies to criticize us or our work, let's beat them to it. Let's be our own most severe critic. Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word.

There's this spiral where you can't stop feeling horrible about your horrible self, and it makes you act more horrible.

Agora, cada vez que nos vemos, depois que deixo você, vou para casa com um sentimento miserável de que sou lenta e estúpida sobre tudo. Repenso coisas que disse e arranjo respostas brilhantes e espirituosas que deveria ter dito e tenho vontade de me chutar porque não as mencionei quando estávamos juntos.

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.

There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.

If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.

You need to learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work

Das Ungenügen mit sich selbst ist der eigentliche Stachel.

No one was around to publicly shame me, but I am perfectly able to shame myself. And worse -- around myself it is not a matter of appearing to be stupid and heartless; instead I confirm to myself that I am definitively one or the other.

Wenn das Leben bös von sich spricht, glaubt er der Unglaublichten nicht. Dagegen verführt die Weisheit dann am meisten, wenn sie von sich schlecht spricht. Die Weisheit gewinnt Zarathustra gerade durch ihre Fähigkeit zur Selbskritik. Dagegen findet das Leben keinen Glauben bei ihm, wenn es böse von sich redet, weil sein tiefster Glaube sagt, daß das Leben gut sei.

For looking down the ladder of our deeds, The rounds seem slender: all past work appears Unto the doer faulty: the heart bleeds, And pale Regret comes weltering in tears, To think how poor our best has been, how vain, Beside the excellence we would attain.

Tal vez la facultad de ver los defectos propios sea un hermoso rasgo de nuestro carácter. Pero los exageramos y nos consolamos de ellos con la ironía que tenemos siempre en los labios.

I suffer from the Virgo disease: nothing I did was pure enough. I was never sure whether I wanted disciples or partisans. I was never sure if I wanted Parliament or a hermitage.

Most offensive is what he imagines a person thinks about himself.