Marianne Moore Quotes

I'm a tough critic on myself.

I'll never give myself an A since I ask a lot from myself.

Although I'm very competitive, I'm also very critical of myself.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I'll always be tough on myself.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

I'm always my hardest critic.

I'll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

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.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

I put more pressure on myself than anybody in this world.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.