Ben Affleck Quotes

Be your own biggest critic. Don't let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.

It bothers me when nobody is criticizing me, because then I am not doing something.

I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

The end of all you’re your actions is to seek the applause of shopkeepers, while you neglect what is most important to you—energy, energy!

Frankly speaking, if I care what people write, whether it is positive or negative, I believe, personally, I'm on the wrong path.

It's important to have people who will question you occasionally.

Being critical of yourself is important sometimes: not during the season, because you need to be confident, but during the winter, it's always a good time to look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'This, this, and this I need to improve.' That's how it is.

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're OK but you could be better.

I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am very attentive to critics, they let me go ahead and push myself harder to continue.

I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

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

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

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

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

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

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.