Elon Musk Quotes

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

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.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

I'm always willing to look at my actions, and do them better.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

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

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.

I am my own biggest critic.

You have to look back on everything that you've done and critique yourself and find the holes in your game that you can continue to get better.

Throughout my career, I have criticized my every single step and I am open to any criticism.

You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can’t accurately do that, how can we tell if we’re getting better or worse?

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.

It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.

Everybody is their own critic.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

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

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.