Quotes About Self-criticism

I'm not exactly the best capitalist ever.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to play a certain way.

There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

Perfectionists often position themselves on the sidelines, from which they point out that nothing is good enough.

Everyone is perfect, yet none of us feels that way because our culture teaches us to hate and criticize ourselves.

I've never met anyone (myself included) who hasn't turned little things into great big emergencies. We take our own goals so seriously that we forget to have fun along the way, and we forget to cut ourselves some slack. We take simple preferences and turn them into conditions for our own happiness. Or, we beat ourselves up if we can't meet our self-created deadlines.

It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat's maze poorly.

The perfectionist writes, paints, creates with one eye on her audience. Instead of enjoying the process, the perfectionist is constantly grading the results. The perfectionist has married the logic side of the brain.

To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist calls this humility. In reality, it is egotism. It is pride that makes us want to write a perfect script, paint a perfect painting, perform a perfect audition monologue.

Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

You may call it having standards. What you should be calling it is perfectionism.

Perfectionism is fear in a fancy dress.

something, what we mean is that we won't do something unless we can guarantee that we'll do it perfectly. Working artists know the folly of

Who could imagine that one could be so ridiculed, so humiliated by oneself?

Instead of making God a symbol to challenge our prejudice and force us to contemplate our own shortcomings, it can be used to endorse our egotistic hatred and make it absolute. It makes God behave exactly like us, as though he were simply another human being. Such a God is likely to be more attractive and popular than the God of Amos and Isaiah, who demands ruthless self-criticism.

If there was one thing she excelled at, it was being her own inner mean girl.

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

I'm a cruel man to myself.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

I wake up some mornings hating me too.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.