Edward Steichen Quotes

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

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.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

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

As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.

And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.