Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

Observe all men, thyself most.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

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

You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

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

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

I'm not good at watching myself.