When I was first getting into the guitar, I played it incessantly. I lived it, breathed it, ate it, and slept it. I was also extremely self-critical, so from early on, I made sure to develop good playing habits - I constantly strove to sound in tune and have a great tone, and to play cleanly and in time.

Yngwie Malmsteen

I am quite self-critical, I try to keep focused on what I need to do better, and in the final third of the pitch I know I can do miles better.

Adama Traore

Used Use Us

There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

Al Franken

Anger Way Us

I think one of the things that makes Arch Enemy so unique is that we're five musicians who are all super self-critical but also super-driven.

Alissa White-Gluz

Music Who Us

Obviously, being an actor I am very self-critical and I will always want to serve the fans, but I've always tried to focus on the positive, and more importantly, on the story.

Anya Chalotra

Positive Will Ways

I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.

Billie Eilish

Good Which Want

As an actor, it easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, 'Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?'

Chris Pine

Good Art Yourself

There are moments, when you're playing your songs to thousands of people, which are amazingly satisfying. I'm very self-critical, so I find it hard to go along with moments like that.

Dan Smith

Mom Men Amazing

I'm very inquisitive. I love hanging around people who can teach me. I ask a lot of questions. And I'm very introspective and self-critical.

Daniel Lubetzky

Love Who Very

I try hard to always question myself and wonder, 'What could I have done better? What did I do wrong?' The culture at our company is to be self-critical, but you have to balance that as a leader with praise for your team.

Daniel Lubetzky

Your You Wrong

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

Daniel Radcliffe

Good Car Where

Since I'm a highly self-critical person, I try to become better every day. I don't see the point of competing with anyone.

Disha Patani

Pet Wit Very

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

Ernest Mandel

Ways Way T

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

Fiona Apple

Till T Still

I am very self-critical and always will be. I think this makes me want to improve, always. But just because I'm self-critical and say what I thought of my performance in a game, it doesn't mean I will bring myself down, ever.

Gabriel Jesus

Will Ways Way

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.

Gianluigi Buffon

Car Very Use

I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.

Gina McKee

Wit Wearing Wear

You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.

H. R. McMaster

War You World War

It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.

Jake Tapper

Way Usual Us

I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical.

James Earl Jones

You Who Us

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

Jesse Eisenberg

Watch Use Us

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

Jim Carrey

I'm horribly self-critical.

John Hurt

I'm pretty self-critical about everything I've ever done: stand-up, 'SNL.'

John Mulaney

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

John Stones

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

Joni Mitchell

It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

Keanu Reeves

The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.

Malcolm Gladwell

Yes, I tend to be self-critical at times. This is because during my cancer period - while I was going through the whole process of treatment - I had time to reflect.

Manisha Koirala

I'm very self-critical.

Manolo Blahnik

I am very self-critical about what I do. Always.

Manuel Pellegrini

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

Marya Hornbacher

I don't know anyone who is more self-critical than me.

Mats Hummels

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

Michael Eric Dyson

I always get nervous when I watch what I'm in. Very self-critical.

Michael Socha

Criticism is a funny thing, because I think if you want to be something, create something or make a difference in any walk of life you have to be hugely self-critical.

Mike Ashley

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

Nick Cave

One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

Nick Hanauer

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.

Paul Johnson

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

Peter Eisenman

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

Ray LaMontagne

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

I am so self-critical.

Sanya Malhotra

I have a tendency to become very self-critical.

Sara Bareilles

I am self-critical and always have been.

Shirley Ballas

All actors are self-critical.

Skyler Samuels

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

Tariq Ramadan

I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.

Taylour Paige

When I was 12 there was a big shift in mindset and I realised that if I want to get something out of it then I need to work hard and focus all my energy just for this sport and that's when I started training and taking things more seriously. I became a lot more self-critical and analysed the driving more and more, and that was when I was 12.

Valtteri Bottas

I am a self-critical perfectionist.

Victoria Pendleton

When I was first getting into the guitar, I played it incessantly. I lived it, breathed it, ate it, and slept it. I was also extremely self-critical, so from early on, I made sure to develop good playing habits - I constantly strove to sound in tune and have a great tone, and to play cleanly and in time.

Yngwie Malmsteen