William Gibson Quotes

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

I'm sometimes surprised by myself: no matter how much time has passed, I wasn't able to accept my inferiority complex. But I did.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

When I look back, I don't have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I'm definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I'm trying very hard not to be that.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

I don't get along much with myself.

I feel like I'm quite harsh on myself.

Personally, I've struggled with a lot of doubt in myself at times.

I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the play. So much of the book is about the anxiety of failure - the failure of the play and the failure of the divorce and the failure of not feeling like a good person.

I feel like 2013 was one giant snowball of me being confused with my place in life and within the group. A lot of it was self-confidence issues, a lot of outside issues, and a lot of me questioning the future of what I was doing. And my mistake was letting all that influence me so that I wasn't the best I could be in life!

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to get over myself!

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

A struggle in my life is to feel like I'm a good person and to feel like I'm a nice person. I try to be and anytime I fall short of that it feels really bad.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.