Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

I don't make much of comparisons in general, it's not how I think people construct themselves and I don't think it's a healthy way of dealing with your own reality.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

I can only be the madman that I've been so long.

I really judge me on me.

I have a superiority complex I need to get rid of.

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

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay.

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

Self improvement is masturbation.

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.

Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

Learn yourself and love yourself.

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

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

Self-love is not something that you get in one day or two days. It's an ongoing process, and I go through it every day.

People have to understand that they're not good at everything.