John French Sloan Quotes

I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

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

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I'm not good at watching myself.

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

There is no country in the world where the process of self-criticism and self-correction is more active than in the United States.

The only way you can learn is by analysing yourself and taking in your mistakes.

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.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can’t accurately do that, how can we tell if we’re getting better or worse?

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world.

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

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

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.