Dalai Lama Quotes

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.

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

I have to keep testing myself.

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.

The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities.

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.

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.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

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

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

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

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me.

The mistake, if I made one, in the late 1980s, was thinking I needed to change my game.

Dig for feedback on yourself. You need to have the courage to ask for feedback. You need to learn how you can learn how to grow. It is important that you are going to be a lifelong learner.

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

I wouldn't be the type of person to critique anybody. I've got to look at myself first, to be a better person.

I think a lot about my own game.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

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