Self Critical Quotes

37 quotes by 36 authors

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That… — Jim Carrey
I'm hugely self-critical in the morning. — Nick Cave
I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore. — Fiona Apple
A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey… — H E Bates
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. — Stephen Batchelor
If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks… — Grant Morrison
One of the things that has changed my lifeâ€”and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personalityâ€”is meditating. The simple act… — Sheryl Crow
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting… — Alan Perlis
The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to… — Alexander Kotov
Many young women are less whole and androgynous than they were at age ten. They are more appearance-conscious and sex-conscious. They are quieter, more fearful… — Mary Pipher
The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless,… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly… — Carl Sagan
If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less self-critical at night;… — Mark-Anthony Turnage
Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it… — Barry Green
I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician. — Ray LaMontagne
I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical. — Marya Hornbacher
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign… — David Brin
Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held… — Israel Shenker
Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical. — Ernest Mandel
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling… — Ryszard Kapuscinski

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