Internal Criticism Quotes

Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters.

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

Ya know what's fun? When Democrats start calling each other sexist.

I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

I think the biggest learned behavior that I would love to get rid of is that little voice that tells you, 'That's stupid. You shouldn't say that.' And then five seconds later, you hear somebody saying the same thing, and you think, 'Seriously, what is wrong with me?' I think, in particular, a lot of women do it. And that's a problem.

This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.

We've never really been susceptible to pressure from anyone from the outside. We've been really good at negating any outside influences. We're really hard on ourselves. The filter that we put upon things qualifying to end up on a Tool record is pretty extreme, so we figure we've got that part of it under control.

I'm my own worst critic. I could tell the critics a thing or two about my shows.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

When you present something that you have worked on to somebody else, for some reason that is the moment when you can see everything that you have done wrong. They may or may not agree, but it is more of a personal thing for me. It is that I am looking at it because you are self conscious and suddenly there is someone in the room that is seeing it for the first time.

It doesn't matter how many people say 'well, everyone makes mistakes Ricky, you've had a great career you should be proud of yourself' but that doesn't mean much compared to what goes on between my ears.

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

A lot of nasty things were said about me in my own party about my unwillingness to demand the government shutdown.

I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

The more internal criticism and dissatisfaction publicly communicable within a society, the better and freer the society.

I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance.

I think my own thinking is harsher than my mom's discipline.

Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.