Quotes About Self-criticism

I do a little of several things like writing, teaching and political organizing, but none of them as well as I would like.

I'm never happy with the work I put in. No. I need to be told by my director and people around me that it is fine. Otherwise, I'll even go, like, 'One more take.'

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

I feel like it's the last frontier: the weight thing with women. I think that so many women, like, even myself, I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes, or I can be judgmental of other people for their bodies. I don't know how to get over it.

I'm hugely negative, so if a joke doesn't land it takes me a long time to get over it. If something doesn't go well I go dark in my head. Basically I start thinking it should be illegal for me to be doing comedy.

As a parent, my fantasy is to cook every meal, read every story, do everything, and also work all day. I'm overly hard on myself.

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

Thank God for white paint because many of my paintings have paintings underneath them because I'm a perfectionist and if I don't like my art I'm pretty sure no one else will.

Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.

Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

the left is now characterized by a weird form of self-flagellation.

After all, we're all imperfect, and others have the right to tell us about it from time to time. But are you obliged to make yourself miserable and hate yourself every time someone flies off the handle or puts you down?

Overgeneralization. You generalize from some specific flaw, failure, or mistake to your entire self. Or you may generalize the way you feel right now, or some negative experience you've just had, to the future.

Discounting the Positive. This is an even more spectacular mental error. You tell yourself that your positive qualities or successes don't count. You convince yourself that you're completely bad, inferior, or worthless.

Hidden Shoulds are not expressed explicitly with terms like should, ought, or must, but they're implied by your negative thoughts and feelings. For example, if you berate yourself whenever you make a mistake, you're essentially telling yourself that you should be perfect and should never goof up.

Train yourself to recognize and write down the self-critical thoughts as they go through your mind; b. Learn why these thoughts are distorted; and c. Practice talking back to them so as to develop a more realistic self-evaluation system

Make sure you believe in your rebuttal to self-criticism. This rational response can take into account what was illogical and erroneous about your self-critical automatic thought.

Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back, Beldin said sourly.

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

It was June 1980. I was standing in front of a full-length mirror studying my body. What I saw didn't please me. My face was full of deep wrinkles and lines, while the top of my forehead sported hairless patches of skin; vacant and deathly white chunks of scalp that, I realized with a certain amount of terror, could no longer be camouflaged by deft parting and combing. It was very depressing.

Average wasn't good enough. Average was too big. Everyone knew that. There was an obesity crisis in this country! She didn't want to fat-shame other people, but she certainly wanted to fat-shame herself because she deserved to be shamed.