Steven Pressfield Quotes

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.

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

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

I don't like being told what you're good at. I'd rather hear what I didn't do.

We will all face criticism throughout our lives, no matter where we live and what we weigh.

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

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person.

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

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

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

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.