Meg Wolitzer Quotes

I do think human beings cannot be faulted for wishing to judge themselves and their lives and their achievements by others around them; that is a natural human feeling.

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

I really judge me on me.

It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

Social media can connect you with other people in so many wonderful ways - but it can also make you really sick of yourself.

It's difficult to judge yourself.

Judgment comes from you comparing yourself to other people, and expectations of what you think life should be.

You know, I don't ever - I don't really compare myself to receivers.

I was constantly comparing myself to others in my workplace, others in life, others on social media, and I was so focused on others that I fell out of touch with myself.

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.

To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.

I didn't realize I was that short!

Suriya is more handsome than me.

The ego knows itself by comparison.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I'm more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.