Internal Criticism Quotes

#1. 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.

Walter Mosley

#2. All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.

Frederick Lenz

#3. That man is best Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then-do not worry.

Charles Deems

#4. ... you know that Sunday-night feeling, where the dread of reality sinks in, that you've mismanaged your time and now the anxiety of homework and the wasteland of early mornings and school stretches ahead of you? Well, I hope he has that feeling every minute of every day of his entire life.

Emery Lord

#5. There may be organic life out there, or maybe machines created by long-dead civilizations, but any signals, even if they are difficult to decode, would tell us that the concepts of logic and physics are not limited to the hardware in human skulls, and will transform our view of the universe.

Martin Rees

#6. No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#7. I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.

John J. Crittenden

#8. I think I can sing, but that does not mean I can actually sing. I fear that I'm like one of those 'American Idol' contestants who truly believe they are good and are actually dreadful.

Kenneth Choi

#9. You must want it, to chase for it.

Lailah Gifty Akita