Paula Deen Quotes

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

It's difficult to judge yourself.

Because I've always been good at knowing what I thought and not reviewing prematurely and have gotten better at those things over the years, my flips are rarely that significant.

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

I have opinions of my own—strong opinions—but I don’t always agree with them.

I think I am my own biggest critic, yeah.

I'm always my hardest critic.

I'm always my worst critic.

It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.

I am my own biggest critic.

You need to weigh things up properly in life and ask yourself if it is your call to make, or one to satisfy others.

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can’t accurately do that, how can we tell if we’re getting better or worse?

You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.

Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

Observe all men, thyself most.