Billy Corgan Quotes

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

Reviews are extremely subjective, but I have respect for them.

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

It would be a lie to say that I don't care what people say about me. Every human being cares unless they're nuts. Am I nuts? But you can't allow that to override your mission.

There are people who hate me, there are people who like me, and they're both right. I think people hate me for the right reasons, which is my politics and what they discern to be my personal attitudes.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's merits or demerits. They must search their own souls, or whatever.

If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.

What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed.

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.

If you read, you'll judge.

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

If you agree with an outside person's interpretation of you, that's a happy bit of affirmation. It means you're communicating externally what you believe to be true internally. If you disagree, it helps clarify how you understand yourself. And maybe makes you productively question how to improve your communication skills.