Bob Greene Quotes

The examined life is no picnic.

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.

Everyone has to be their own critic.

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

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.

As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

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.

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.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

The unexamined life is not worth living.