Cree Summer Quotes

If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

Reminding myself that I have a tailbone keeps me in check.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I can control what I can control. I just focus on me, and that's it.

I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.

Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

Sometimes you have to self-scout yourself.

Self awareness allows you to self-correct.

As soon as I observed myself from outside myself, I recognized and understood that I had a long-standing habit of keeping an eye on myself. That's how I managed to pull myself together, over the years, checking myself from the outside.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.