Rhiannon Giddens Quotes

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.

If you don't want to investigate what you're passing judgment on, then it's your fault. And I believe that if people investigate Goldberg as a human being, I'm not such a bad guy.

Put your choices in perspective.

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

I used to think that if I did my very best work, then everyone would love it, but I've realised that not everybody thinks the same things are good. It took me 30 years even to begin to see that.

I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don't overanalyze, either.

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.

I know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance.

It's important to have people who will question you occasionally.

I don't really judge myself, I guess. I don't really judge other players.

I always like to think that I'm accountable for everything I do, but I'll never understand how I did some of the things that I did.

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.