Eartha Kitt Quotes

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

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?'

Improving, for me, is quite natural as I'm always critical of myself.

I'm always my hardest critic.

I try to challenge myself.

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

I'm a flawed, hard-working, hard-trying person.

I think sometimes it's about just finding the measuring stick that's different than the one the world puts on you. It's finding the one in which you're held accountable and how you hold each other accountable; what a good job looks like in a particular situation and how to be better at your job than you were yesterday.

I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I'm a tough critic on myself.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.

I'm gonna have to develop myself. I'm just going to do the best that I can do.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.