Quotes About Self-criticism

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

What if you know yourself too well? What if you do not like what you know?

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Replace self-criticism with regular, positive self-talk. Replace fear of failure with clear pictures of yourself functioning successfully and happily.

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

As coaches, whether we're making personnel decisions or not, we're all critical of ourselves. We always want to get better. We push our players to do that. But nobody bats 1.000.

I don't like my work. I didn't like my work in 'Dangal,' and then in 'Photograph,' I was cribbing.

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

I am always picking on something or the other about the way I have performed a scene.

I have a fat head - I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough.

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it's different because you're playing a character. So it's like watching yourself but not watching yourself.

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.

It was always difficult for me to listen to my singing voice for the first 20 years or so. I mean, I really enjoyed singing, and I enjoyed doing live shows, but being in a recording studio and having to hear my voice played back to me would really drive me up the wall.

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.

You don't wanna see your work, because you might find out that you do not like it.

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

I don't think I've ever made something that I'm totally satisfied with. That feeling of doubt, or wanting to do more, is my engine to move forward and make the next iteration.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

Some sober part of my brain seemed to observe everything I did, clucking disdainfully, informing me that ought to be embarrassed, yet making no move

recognize their own vituperous thought shaming.