Top 35 Self-Critical Quotes

Criticism is a funny thing, because I think if you want to be something, create something or make a difference in any walk of life you have to be hugely self-critical.

There are moments, when you’re playing your songs to thousands of people, which are amazingly satisfying. I’m very self-critical, so I find it hard to go along with moments like that.

Most of us in the media are, by and large, sentimental about our national identity, but comfortable enough in our skins as Indians, to be deeply self-critical. The problem arises when loyalty to India gets mixed up with loyalty to the government of the day.

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

I’m a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There’s a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

I’m extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It’s a private exercise I don’t necessarily share with other people.

I am quite self-critical, I try to keep focused on what I need to do better, and in the final third of the pitch I know I can do miles better.

You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.

I’m hugely self-critical in the morning.

I’m pretty self-critical about everything I’ve ever done: stand-up, ‘SNL.’

I am very self-critical about what I do. Always.

I have a tendency to become very self-critical.

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 elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.

When I was first getting into the guitar, I played it incessantly. I lived it, breathed it, ate it, and slept it. I was also extremely self-critical, so from early on, I made sure to develop good playing habits – I constantly strove to sound in tune and have a great tone, and to play cleanly and in time.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

It’s a struggle for me to watch things I’ve been in because I’m just distracted and self-critical.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

I’m trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I’m really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn’t exist.

I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you’re an actor. It’s also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical.

I am a self-critical perfectionist.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I’ve got through so far and improved.

I’m a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I’m horribly self-critical.

Since I’m a highly self-critical person, I try to become better every day. I don’t see the point of competing with anyone.

One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It’s always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

I try hard to always question myself and wonder, ‘What could I have done better? What did I do wrong?’ The culture at our company is to be self-critical, but you have to balance that as a leader with praise for your team.

I am self-critical and always have been.

I am so self-critical.

I am very self-critical, but that’s a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting – not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities – that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.

I don’t know anyone who is more self-critical than me.

I always get nervous when I watch what I’m in. Very self-critical.

There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.

I think one of the things that makes Arch Enemy so unique is that we’re five musicians who are all super self-critical but also super-driven.