Ben Gibbard Quotes

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

Two people live within me. One's a very savvy businessperson; the other's a party girl.

I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of Jekyl and Hyde character.

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

I guess with the way that I've conducted myself I'm in the logical spot and I'm fine with that. Even my limited interactions with success have left me confused and bummed out, so I don't think the two can co-exist.

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!