Quotes About Self-critique

Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

I do watch some of my losses, but it just makes me think, 'Well, you know, should have done this; could have done that.' But that's why I don't like watching it. It's a shoulda/coulda/woulda thing.

Never make the same mistake twice. You are your best critic!

Its very easy to criticize someone but its hard to realize your own mistakes and lacking.

Forgive me for rating my own book and wanting to read my own book, etc. (as seen on the Author Profile page) I'm new to this Author Profile jazz and don't quite understand how it all works yet. But I'll get there. Thank you.

I read once that [Pablo] Picasso felt if an artist ever felt totally satisfied with a work she ceased to be an artist. With that in mind, it seems like goals are a terrible idea then.

we should turn our most unsparing criticism toward ourselves. None is so perfect that there is no room for improvement.

I have often noticed that when women look at themselves in every reflection, and take furtive peeps into their looking-glasses, it is hardly ever, as is generally supposed, from vanity, but much more often from a feeling that all is not quite as it should be

In extreme cases of perfectionism, there is no distinction between judgment of one's work and one's sense of value as a person.