Simon Cowell Quotes

True confidence is firmly planted in reality. To grow your confidence, it's important to do an honest and accurate self-assessment of your abilities. If there are weaknesses in your skill set, make plans for strengthening these skills and find ways to minimize their negative impact.

I will do anything I can to improve myself.

I am not competing with anyone. I am competing with myself. When I wake up every day I am only worried about how I can better myself.

I am very self-critical and always will be. I think this makes me want to improve, always. But just because I'm self-critical and say what I thought of my performance in a game, it doesn't mean I will bring myself down, ever.

I'm just trying to be the best version of Trey Young.

When I first started playing international cricket, people around me started telling me what was being said. And you're never as good as anybody says you are. I try to stay quite logical about things.

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 never underestimate or overestimate anybody. Really we have to try and find levels of performance for ourselves first.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

I'm in control of what I'm doing physically and mentally. I feel good. I've always felt confident and comfortable going into seasons, but each year I feel like I'm getting better and better.

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.

You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

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.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.