“The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or he will go under”

Gerald Moor quotes

If you are trying to stop being self-critical about your performance, work, or behavior, take an objective view of things.
Think of, and look at, your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.

When I went to umrah a couple of years ago, I went to the cave where the Prophet used to meditate before the first revelation.

Naturally, what interested me the most was the monkeys.

(The cave of hira was immediately to my left.)