Nate Silver Quotes

Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

I need advice and opinion-honest opinion. I want to get better. Why go around with blinkers on?

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

There is no need to punish yourself. Simply notice what you've been choosing and choose again.

I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."

If you don't see anything wrong with your game, you need to wake up.

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.