The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.
I'm still very critical of myself in film.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
The best critics of America are Americans.
The subject we talk of is the eye of England: if there be a speck or two in the eye, we endeavor to take them off; he would be a strange oculist, who should pull out the eye.”
1st Baron Verulam
The biggest expectations we'll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.
I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound of my own voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for my records.
I think I'm a harder critic on myself than anybody is. I think I judge myself harder than any of the coaches do.
I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.
I'm usually a fairly harsh critic. It depends. I tend to really not watch my work, because I just feel uncomfortable, and I can be highly critical.
Obviously we're all our own biggest critics.
I really judge me on me.
Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.
Conservatives don’t seem to criticize their own as much as liberals do. It’s not that they don’t do it. It’s that they don’t do it with the same zeal and enthusiasm.
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.
I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.
I'm probably my own harshest critic. If I get a hundred good reviews and one really bad one, it's that one out of a hundred that I remember. I think we actors are hard on ourselves, and I don't know why that is.
