Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

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 am absolutely my own biggest critic.

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.

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

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

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

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

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

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.