Quotes About Self-criticism

Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.

My long lists of faults goes on. I've had a lifetime of insecurity. But I'm so sick of using the mirror with such scrutiny.

Look in the mirror, stare back at yourself and if you can't honestly say that you're perfect, then you have a right to judge the person standing beside you.

I'm a perfectionist when it comes to being imperfect.

When you feel you need to start pointing out flaws in the world around you, perhaps you should start with a mirror.

I hate being judged but yet, I judge!

Girls are cruelest to themselves," observes Anne Carson in "The Glass Essay," her brilliant long poem about the ravages of female anger, loneliness, grief, and desire, giving us as poetic adage what any number of other fields give us as statistic.

My brain loves obsessions. If it can make me hate myself, then it's all the better.

Rien ne rend plus léger parfois qu'une certaine horreur de soi.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

I think he didn't like himself, and when that is so the subject usually must find an area for dislike outside himself.

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

Confront your path with courage, and don't be afraid of the criticism of others. And, above all, don't allow yourself to become paralyzed by self-criticism.

I had the additional disadvantage of being unable to approve my own conduct; being a child of the age, I knew how wrong and how misguided it was. I walked around with a scarlet letter embroidered upon my bosom, visible enough in the end, but the A stood for Abstinence, not for Adultery.

She has often suspected that her last words to herself and in this world will prove to be 'You bloody old fool' or, perhaps, depending on the mood of the day or the time of the night, 'you fucking idiot'.

There are days when I still want to dismantle this constructed self of mine. You did it so badly, I think. You lost so much time. And then I tell myself, so what? So what? Go on.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect; it makes you feel inadequate.

For better or worse, it is the "three wrong" that sticks in one's memory after the math test is returned, not the "seventeen right." I wonder what happens when a child hears a recitation of his failures day after day, year after year? Do you have a strong negative internal voice that is critical of yourself and others? Where did that voice come from? It is the result of our own upbringings that tracked our failures rather than our successes.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.

You can't stop killing yourself, If you can't stop hating yourself.

I don't understand people that hate their lives enough to criticize the next person's... but not enough to fix their own.

If someone talked to you the way you talk to yourself , you would have kicked them out of you life a long ago.