Paul Simon Quotes

I'm never really happy with anything I do.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

I'm never happy with my work. I always go back home thinking I could have done so so much better.

I'm never happy with my performance.

I'm not satisfied with anything I do.

I have this problem where I'm never satisfied with what I do.

I'll never be satisfied in classical ballet. It'll never be good enough. I'll never be happy with most of my product.

I can never tell if anything I do is really good. I'm always just slightly chagrined.

When I look back, I think I could have done this scene or that better. I am not satisfied with my work at all. I think I could have done better. I am never satisfied.

Sometimes it seemed like it was never good enough, no matter what I did.

It's a blessing and a curse, 'cause I'm never satisfied, so I continually want to outdo myself. But still, I'm never happy.

I'm never satisfied with what I do.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.

My stories are never quite good enough.

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

With every job I watch, I can't find peace with what I've done. It's never good enough in my mind. I will never be happy if I'm in that mindset, unless I get a review that starts: 'Once in a generation.'

I hate all of my own matches. I hate all of my own work. I am my worst critic.

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 always complain.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.