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1 " All I’m arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there’s no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty—and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I’m telling you I arrived at it irrationally. "
― Sam Harris
2 " I don't think that we should waste our time criticizing other people. Self-criticism allows us to be the best version of ourselves. "
― Braden Pedersen
3 " We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination "
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4 " It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego. "
5 " You must push through the negativity and self-criticism that dam up your creativity and just let it flow. Be your authentic self. Write or sing or dance or paint with your whole being, without guardedness or cynicism and without trying to second-guess an audience. "
6 " Many say that it is ethnocentric to claim that our religion is superior to others. Yet isn't that very statement ethnocentric? Most non-Western cultures have no problem saying that their culture and religion is best. The idea that it is wrong to do so is deeply rooted in Western traditions of self-criticism and individualism. To charge others with the " sin" of ethnocentrism is really a way of saying, " Our culture's approach to other cultures is superior to yours. "
7 " The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith. "
8 " T.S. Eliot said to me 'There’s only one way a poet can develop his actual writing – apart from self-criticism & continual practice. And that is by reading other poetry aloud – and it doesn’t matter whether he understands it or not (i.e. even if it’s in another language.) What matters above all, is educating the ear.' What matters, is to connect your own voice with an infinite range of verbal cadences & sequences – and only endless actual experience of your ear can store all that in your nervous system. The rest can be left to your life & your character. "
― Ted Hughes , Letters of Ted Hughes
9 " Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt. "
― Sanaya Roman , Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation
10 " A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him. "
