Lorene Scafaria Quotes

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

Me personally, I know I've made mistakes.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

As long as we are human, we are destined to make mistakes. We all fall prey to flawed beliefs and views. What separates a forward-looking person from an intransigent one, a virtuous person from a malevolent one, however, is whether one can candidly admit to ones mistakes and take bold steps to redress them.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.

I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.

I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.

We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.

I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.

I think people on Twitter know that I'm real and I speak from the heart most of the time, and sometimes I'm going to make a mistake.

I'm not going to sit here and say I know everything about everything. I definitely have work to do. The thing is, I'm willing to admit that.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.