Quotes About Inner-critic

The Gremlin is the doubting voice inside your head that's always carping, always telling you that you're not doing things well enough, or that you should be doing something else

we invest everything we've got in believing that we're not good enough. We arrive here as perfect little bundles of joy and then set about the task of learning to un-love ourselves! How unbelievably ridiculous is that?! Self-love, the simplest yet most powerful thing ever, flies right out the window when we start taking in outside information. I

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

sometimes when we are beating ourselves up, we need to stop and say to that harassing voice inside, "Man, I'm doing the very best I can right now."

Às vezes, quando ousamos caminhar na arena da vida, o maior crítico que enfrentamos somos nós mesmos.

I don't need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.

was continually harassed by an inner judge who was merciless, relentless, nit-picking, driving, often invisible but always on the job. I knew I would never treat a friend the way I treated myself, without mercy or kindness.

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

The crisis with all creative work is that it requires us to trust that generative voice inside us while also silencing the negative ones. It's so easy to mix them all up and end up quietly abandoning our ambitions.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

Recovering requires being able to recognize inner-critic catastrophizing so that we can resist it with thought-stopping and thought-correction. In this case, I reminded my client of the many times we had caught his critic "freaking out" about every conceivable way his life could go down the tubes. I then encouraged him to refuse to indulge this process, and to angrily say "no" to the critic every time it tried to scare or demean him.