Jim Butcher Quotes

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 don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I have no inner monologue.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It's a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we're telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I know the things I say go out of my own mouth and into my own ears.

When people compliment me, I don't put much meaning into them, but when they say bad things, I take them too seriously. I try to fix this mentality, but it's hard.

It's hard to turn my internal dialogue off from that character I become.

Always remember that no matter what anyone is saying to you from the outside, the most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself on the inside.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

I'm very self-critical.

I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself.