Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and…

As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do…

— Daniel Dennett

“the impulse toward excessive self sacrifice comes from women's history, not their nature. The reason self-sacrifice seems so natural for women in Western culture…

— Stephanie Golden

Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but…

— Bozoma Saint John

I feel like the criticism and bad stuff don't come unless I'm playing bad.

— Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so…

— Plato

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

— Richard Rohr

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are…

— Victor Hugo

When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed…

— Miriam Schapiro

“Moreover, probably owing to excessive self-consciousness, perhaps as the result of the generally unfortunate cast of my personality, there existed between my thoughts and…

— Ivan Turgenev

“The problem is that the inner critic is actually an indispensable element of any writer’s working life; it is the immune system, the necessary…

— Patricia Costa Viglucci

“Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down, so to…

— Byung-Chul Han

“I have too much free time. Free time makes people think; thinking makes people morbidly self-absorbed; and unless you are watertight and flawless, excessive…

— Steve Toltz

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

— Ronald Rolheiser

When you're writing a blog post, you can take solace in knowing that you will immediately know how people will respond to it, and…

— Leandra Medine

“Unreasonable self-criticism represents a form of self-hatred and fear.”

— Bryant McGill