Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how...

The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.

…writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

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

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...

The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,

It [speaking with words that bring about harmony] consists of speaking of what is good about people, instead of what is wrong with them. For some people this is an almost impossible exercise, for they...

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

The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (…) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves.

You’ve been criticising yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying.

Intuition is an institution of inspiration and to have it in life, all a person requires to do is an introspection with a tinge of the right imagination.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

A gentleman is one who doesn’t and can’t forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It’s like a field – if it’s not cared for, the weeds will take...

Don’t panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession, the derisive reviews,...

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”(Casual Chance, 1964)