Roger Ebert Quotes

I've stopped asking for criticism, even from friends, because I don't think anyone knows my little world of mega-thorough critical thinking/musical comic rambling better than I do.

I'm always my hardest critic.

Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it.

I've always been critical about my work. It pushes me to work harder.

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 need to be very critical of yourself. There are a few very good managers who can make players better individually. Most managers think about the team process - and so you have to improve things on your own.

I have sort of weaned myself off of reading my own reviews, which is a constant struggle.

I am my own biggest critic.

I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

I came to the conclusion over time that Trump is not the person I feared he was in the beginning when I was against him.

Throughout my career, I have criticized my every single step and I am open to any criticism.

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.

You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

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

I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

Today, decide not to speak negatively about yourself. When you criticize yourself, you are criticizing God’s very own creation.

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.