Quotes About Self-criticism

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

So if you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

No matter how much he accomplished he would always raise his standards slightly higher, and then he'd feel miserable.

You too may be paying heavily for your perfectionism.

ALL-OR-NOTHING THINKING: You see things in black-and-white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure.

If you're a perfectionist about your writing, [your rough draft] is the time to get over it. . . . Decide ahead of time that your rough draft is going to be pretty awful, and join the ranks of the great writers of the world. . . . Save the niceties for the revision stage.

Almost every night I say, "I wish I had done much better,

The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards the Word they condemn themselves.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.

As an actor it's easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself: "Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?" Yet here I am, so I'm lucky.

I have loads of stuff that never came out because I really don't think it's good enough.

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?