Quotes About Self-criticism

I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, Youve got everything going for you right now, and I say, Oh yes, but! Which is not a good way to be.

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

I'm not a Perfectionist."I just don't want to get Embarrassed and Ashamed".

It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.

And it is the bullwhip of negative judgment—from ourselves or others—that produces much of our anxiety around feedback. Surprisingly, reassurance—"You can do this" and "I believe in you"—also falls into the category of additional judgments, but on the positive side.

you made a mistake in the past and learn from it now, you are using clock time. On the other hand, if you dwell on it mentally, and self-criticism, remorse, or guilt come up, then you are making the mistake into "me" and "mine": You make it part of your sense of self, and it has become psychological time, which is always linked to a false sense of identity.

Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.

Many people have a secret fear that they are bad.

Think about the nature of depression. Life is turned inward. You already have a sense that, for all practical purposes, God is not present. Add to that your relentless condemnation and pervasive self-criticism, which have persuaded you that God doesn't love you. You couldn't be a more obvious spiritual target if you painted a bull's-eye on your chest.

Because when you don't perform remarkably well the next time, back to slobhood you will go! And even when you do perform well, you will be anxious about not doing so next time. So you had better like your fine performance—but not deify yourself for doing it.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

I don't watch my old films like 'Roja,' 'Dil Se' because I only see mistakes. I see five minutes of the film and I am scared I will start finding mistakes in them.