George Clooney Quotes

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

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

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

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

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.

The examined life is no picnic.

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.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

You learn a lot about yourself just by writing it down.

I learned that it's important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen to feedback.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

My advice to myself would be I should probably listen to advice.

Be your own biggest critic. Don't let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.