Hugh Carey Quotes

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

I know when I'm good and when there are a few things I need to iron out.

Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

Sometimes you have to self-scout yourself.

You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.

People can be critical about your game, but no one knows better than the player as to what he needs.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers and I really respected the way that he directed. He told me, "It's very important to watch yourself." So he would direct by going, "Hey come over to the screen and watch this scene." And so it was very uncomfortable for me to have to watch myself but then he talked me through the process of that and it was very helpful.

It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Everybody is their own critic.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

We all come to the point where it's time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It's tough love but it's also being real with yourself. It's important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what's going on.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.