Colin Powell Quotes

To me, I look at situations and try to look back and see if there was anything I could have done.

After every game I analyse my performance with the goalkeeping coach in a very critical manner. There is certain criticism you will take on board and other things that do not affect you. You cannot look too far into that because it can destruct you in a certain way.

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.

There is no country in the world where the process of self-criticism and self-correction is more active than in the United States.

A conscious nation is the one that reconsiders itself, from time to time, without waiting for others to dictate for it.

If you don't want to investigate what you're passing judgment on, then it's your fault. And I believe that if people investigate Goldberg as a human being, I'm not such a bad guy.

I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.

I have delivered sometimes, and the other times, I have not. I have taken it in my stride as a player and learnt from my mistakes.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

You can't improve if you don't know what the real situation is.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

Perhaps I've committed some technical and tactical mistakes and I'll look to correct them.

The best critics of America are Americans.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?' The former is trying to determine the employee's state of mind; the latter challenges the employee to describe or defend a course of action.

I analyse my games for club and country. I look at what I could have done better and learn.

I analyse everything I do and when I see something I don't like I try to find the solution and that's why I'm so hard on myself.

I feel like interviews are the only time I actually analyze my own work.

I think I'm a harder critic on myself than anybody is. I think I judge myself harder than any of the coaches do.

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

I think it's vital that we be critical of the things that we love.

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.

You review a game. You don't brush over anything you did well and look at anything you could improve. There's stuff to get better at, it's not hard to find.

I like to give myself time to deal with an issue. I get to the root of the matter and learn from it. I don't like to repeat mistakes.