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The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then.

Geena Davis

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

William Gibson

It’s crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

James Young

We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.

John Spence

The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

Joseph McCabe

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.

Nomar Garciaparra

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

Bryant H. McGill

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

Ioan Gruffudd

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can’t believe I wrote such crap.

Billy Joel

If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn’t we?

Cheryl Richardson

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

Tony Kushner

If you talked to others the way you talk to yourself, would you have any friends?

Rick Warren

A real man has no tougher judge than himself.

James Grippando

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

Ernest Mandel

We’re always hardest on our own work, I guess.

Barbara Jane Reyes

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