self-criticism quotes

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

I can’t stand to see myself on television.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

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.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.