While I'm sure the original quotation was in reference to people, I find that it can apply equally to the more abstract as well. It is, perhaps, one of the root causes to why the creative mind can be its own harshest critic. I'm kind of curious to know how often such happens to other people, especially on ideas/projects that have become long running for you. Do you reach a point where you've gone over an idea or project so many times that you notice nothing but the flaws. Does it feel like you've gone over it in your mind so many times that, despite still being a WIP, it already feels dated? Have you tread the same ground trying to figure out how to move it forward so that it feels repetitive?

I have to say I never really understood the statement until a bit of an epiphany a few minutes ago, knowing that feeling of knowing your own work perhaps too well, especially when it's yet to be completed. And of course, the better you know how something goes together, the easier it is to notice the flaws, and if there's something the human mind tends to pick up on, it's inconsistencies and pattern breaks, and when your mind keeps going over what needs to be fixed, you resent the seeming error and soon the negativity spreads to the entirety of it.

So, yeah, just felt like sharing some thoughts.