Toughest Critic Quotes

#1. I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

Ken Burns

#2. You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.

Garry Winogrand

#3. you have to be your toughest critic, but at the same time, your own biggest fan

Various

#4. I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself ... and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

Miles Davis

#5. The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

Jack Nicholson

#6. My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

Aaron Sanchez

#7. The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you've got to bounce off better work. It's matter of working.

Garry Winogrand

#8. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

Ayn Rand

#9. The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.

Virgil

#10. Everything he does is for a reason. There's always
method to his madness, meaning behind every word, a point to his actions.
And it's usually never good.

J.M. Darhower

#11. People say I slept with seven miss worlds, I didn't. It was only four, I didn't turn up for the other three

George Best

#12. Don't give up on your own happy-evers.

Nora Roberts