Lydia M. Child Quotes

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'

I'm all about evolution. I'm the first person to judge myself.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

I know straight away if I can do better. It doesn't take people to criticise me for me to realise it.

I always see what I did wrong, what I could do better.

People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself.

Something good happens or something bad, I think, 'What can I do better? What didn't I do this year?'

I'm the first one to always criticize myself, and I'm trying to find ways to get better.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

I look at the past and I see myself.