Quotes About Self-critique

Look to the plank of wood in your own eye before you remove the mote of sawdust from mine

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

I always critique myself but I'm realistic - I know I can do better but I'm never that hard on myself, either.

I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.

Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

I have a hard time watching myself.

Um rosário de censuras a outras pessoas leva-nos a suspeitar da existência de um rosário de autocensuras de conteúdo idêntico.

I infallibly discern a flaw in all those who are interested in the same things as myself. . . .

The pleasure of slandering yourself greatly exceeds that of being slandered.

When I was 13 I'd record myself on my karaoke machine and if I didn't like it I'd record it again. I'd do that for hours, making sure each line sounded just right.

I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better.

I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.

Well, I'm always a bit harsh about the things I'm doing.

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.

We record Dream Theater shows and I'll sit on the bus and listen to my playing - what worked, what didn't. A lot of times it's embarrassing and humbling, but that's what you have to do to get better.

I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy, too.