9 Quotes Tagged: self-criticism

We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

Tom Sawyer is simply a hymn put into prose form to give it a worldly air.

Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don't belong. You will always find it because you've made that your mission. Stop scouring people's faces for evidence that you're not enough. You will always find it because you've made that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don't negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation, especially our own. No one belongs here more than you.

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at work and at home.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very ‘gifted’ improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

You can't understand human motivation. You can only understand your damned machines because you're a machine yourself, with skin on.

There are my 'Poe' pieces and my 'Dunsany pieces' — but alas — where are any Lovecraft pieces?