Michael Palin Quotes

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy. But this is not anxiety without a purpose. No, this anxiety keeps me humble. It creates a healthy tension that serves as the catalyst that drives me to fulfill my limited potential.

I'm quite hypercritical of myself. It's a very Scottish thing, always thinking that you've got to be that bit better than everyone else to be good enough.

I think it's because I'm so hard on myself that I can push myself this far.

I am tough on myself. It's just how I am. I hold myself to a standard.

I always compare myself to the best.

I'm hard on myself.

A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

I think I'm very hard on myself. I think I've always been very hard on myself since I was a kid.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

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

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

I always have high expectations for me.

I expect perfection from myself.

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.

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

I set pretty high expectations for myself, and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.

I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.

No pressure on the outside is greater than the pressure I put on myself.